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Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Speech at BHU on 25 November 1956
(Translator’s note: This speech appeared in Prabuddha Bharat in Marathi and this speech summarizes Babasaheb’s great insights into Indian history. Please give it a read to understand Babasaheb on t…
Dr Ambedkar’s Last Speech In The Constituent Assembly On Adoption Of The Constitution
The Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : Sir, looking back on the work of the Constituent Assembly it will now be two years, eleven months and seventeen days since it first met on the 9th of December 194…
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on Caste and Conversion
The following text is from Vol. 5 of Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, starting from page 422. – Editor
The instinct of self-preservation is responsible for the present upheaval in the H…
Dr Ambedkar’s Reply to the Critics of Religious Conversion
The following excerpts are from Vol. 5 of Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, starting from page 403. – Editor
A large majority of Untouchables who have reached a capacity to think out the…
Dr Ambedkar And The Jewish People
Dr. Ambedkar was interviewed by Glora Becher, Consul of Israel in Bombay. The following text is from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches Vol. 17 part 1. Read it in Hindi from डॉ. अम्बेडकर औ…
Babasaheb Ambedkar On Independence Of Untouchables And Congress’s Struggle For Power
Most parts of the world have had their type of what Ward calls the lowly. The Romans had their slaves, the Spartans their helots, the British their villeins, the Americans their Negroes and the Ger…
Dr Ambedkar Had Supported A Plebiscite (Vote) On Kashmir Issue, Not Military Use
(Dr Ambedkar had supported a plebiscite (vote) on Kashmir issue, gave examples where the plebiscite had taken place effectively to solve similar issues and was unhappy with the government spending …
What Ambedkar Had Really Said About Kashmir Issue? Fake Quote Alert!
While the BJP government revoked parts of Article 370, there has been a lot of chatter online on Dr Ambedkar’s views on Article 370. Everyone wants to know what the legend Dr Ambedkar had said abou…
[Transcript] Dr. Ambedkar Speaks on M.K. Gandhi and Poona Pact (BBC Radio) – 1955
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar speaks on M.K. Gandhi (BBC Radio)
Ambedkar: I met Mr Gandhi first in 1929, through the intervention of friend of mine, common friend, who asked Mr Gandhi to see me. So Mr Gandh…
Transcript of Dr Ambedkar’s 1953 Interview with BBC – When Dr Ambedkar Said Democracy Won’t Work in India
Recently BBC released a part of the video of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s interview with BBC. You can find that video at the end of this post. Here I present the transcript of the interview of Dr. B. R. Am…
क्वालालम्पुर मलेशिया में प्रथम अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दलित कन्वेंशन को साहेब कांशी राम का सम्बोधन
You can read the same speech in English from – Saheb Kanshi Ram’s Speech at First International Dalit Conference (Kuala Lumpur)
जातिविहीन समाज की स्थापना के लिए आपको देश का हुक्मरान बनना होगा
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Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Message to OBCs – Which They Have Neglected
An article was published recently in Marathi local magazine by Suhas Sonwane based on daily Loksatta. The following is a gist of it, translated from Marathi.
Mr. Babasaheb Gawande, the founder p…
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Advice to Christians of India, Which They Have Ignored
Speaking to Christians at Sholapur in January 1938, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar declared that he could say from his study of comparative religion that only two personalities had been able to captivate h…
For Centuries Brahmins Have Denied the Servile Classes the Right to Education – Dr. Ambedkar
Starting with the Brahmins who form a strong and powerful element in the governing class in India it is no exaggeration to say that they have been the most inveterate enemies of the servile classes…
Why Have the Brahmins Not Produced a Voltaire? – Answered by Babasaheb Ambedkar
Today all scholarship is confined to the Brahmins. But unfortunately no Brahmin scholar has so far come forward to play the part of a Voltaire who had the intellectual honesty to rise against the d…