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...sought to improve the conditions of the untouchables, yet in today's India, these peoples, now calling themselves Dalits and forming an increasingly well-organized and effective political grouping, have rallied around the memory of their own leader, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, an old rival of Gandhi's. As Ambedkar's star has risen among the Dalits, so Gandhi's stature has been reduced...
Died. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 63, round-faced, tempestuous champion of India's 60 million untouchables and principal author of India's constitution (adopted in 1949), which makes discrimination against untouchables a crime; in New Delhi. Himself an untouchable (and thus so repugnant to some high-caste Hindus that his shadow was considered polluting), Dr. Ambedkar warred with Gandhi over the Mahatma's gradualism in righting caste discrimination, entered Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months...
...Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Columbia-educated Minister for Law in Nehru's cabinet, is an "untouchable," and heads the largest group of India's 60 million untouchables, the sub-basement of the towering Hindu caste system. In New Delhi last week, testy little Dr. Ambedkar strode on to the floor of Parliament, and demanded the privilege of explaining to the House why he was quitting. When he was refused by the Deputy Speaker, he angrily stalked out and gave his statement to the press...
...paper. Had the idea of paradise been original or unknown to men, he could not have explained it. He luckily abandons his analysis of perfection after the first three chapters, and fills the rest of the book with histories of the Chinese peasant Jong Yosen, the Indian untouchable Ramji Lal, and the Swedish jet pilot Buster Schnell. In these lie the greatest value of the book. Using his correspondent's approach. Tregaskis traces the lives of these people from their traditional existences to the new one each finds himself leading...
Today stocky, bald Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 58, is Minister of Law in the government of India, and no longer an untouchable; India's new government has outlawed untouchability. His favor is courted by the great and powerful, and even high-born Brahmins are flattered to be asked to tea with Minister Ambedkar in the tiffin room of the Indian Parliament...