Nanzan University Dr. Ambedkar: The Hero of the Mahars‚ Ex-Untouchables of India Author(s): Indira Y. Junghare Source: Asian Folklore Studies‚ Vol. 47‚ No. 1 (1988)‚ pp. 93-121 Published by: Nanzan University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1178254 Accessed: 04-04-2015 11:32 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT Introduction “When women move forward‚ the family moves‚ the village moves and the nation moves. Those‚ who will understand‚ will lay foundation of a great nation.” Indeed‚ History suggest this as well that western societies which promoted women’s rights‚ freedom‚ self-reliance and fraternity among its citizens have progressed ahead of their time leaving behind the rest of the world drowned in prejudices. In India‚ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was one of the men
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Hindi Dalit literature’s moment has arrived. After years of obscurity and unflattering comparisons to the maturity and expressiveness of Dalit literature in languages such as Marathi and Tamil‚ creative Dalit writing in Hindi is finally reaching a more visible level of popular recognition. Hindi Dalit novels‚ autobiographies‚ short-story and poetry anthologies‚ as well as volumes of literary criticism‚ are today being regularly published by Delhi’s top Hindi-language publishing houses‚ Rajkamal and
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literature in translation that helped publicize the Dalit cause. An acknowledged masterpiece‚ The Outcaste is the emotionally violent autobiography of a half-caste growing up in the Mahar community‚ and the anguish he suffers from not belonging fully to it. A first-perosn narrative‚ it is the numbling account of a community at the hands of an unthinking privileged class. The novel‚ a classic in its own right‚ and the Introduction by G.N. Devy tracing the Dalit literary movement‚ will appeal to students
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(II) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Life and Times: Dr. Ambedkar was born on 14th April‚ 1891 in Mhow‚ Madhya Pradesh. Born as Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar‚ he belonged to the ‘untouchable’ Mahar caste. His father‚ Ramji Ambedkar‚ served in the military. Many from the Mahar community had joined the Bombay army of the East India Company. Bhim’s mother passed away when he was six years old. His father‚ a follower of Kabir and a strict vegetarian‚ retired after fourteen years of military service. The Ramji family moved
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This is to make sure that dalits who are also socially down trodden are not made to sell land to powerful upper caste through coercion or intimidation made to sell land to more powerful upper caste in a form of ’distress sale’. Thus to protect the interests of weaker sections‚ even
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UNIT Structure 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR Objectives Introduction Ambedkar’s View on the British Rule in India Ambedkar on Democracy 14.3.1 Meaning: Social and Economic Democracy 14.3.2 Factors necessary for the Successful Operation of Democracy 14.4 O n State Socialism 14.4.1 Inclination to Socialism 14.4.2 Meaning of State Socialism ’14.4.3 Role of Government 14.5 Ambedkar and Drafting of The Indian Constitution 14.6 On Social Change 14.6.1 Priority to Social Reform
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chairman of the drafting committee that was constituted by the Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution for the independent India; he was the first Law Minister of India; conferred Bharat Ratna in 1990. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is viewed as messiah of dalits and downtrodden in India. He was the chairman of the drafting committee that was constituted by the Constituent Assembly in 1947 to draft a constitution for the independent India. He played a seminal role in the framing of the constitution. Bhimrao
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Special Provisions of the CONSTITUTION OF INDIA for Scheduled Castes‚ Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes ARTICLE 15: Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion‚ race‚ caste‚ sex or place of birth— (1) The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion‚ race‚ caste‚ sex‚ place of birth or any of them‚ . (2) No citizen shall‚ on grounds only of religion‚ race‚ caste‚ sex‚ place of birth or any of them‚ be subject to any disability‚ liability
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Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14th April‚ 1891. He was born in Central India as the fourteenth child to parents who belonged to the very lowest caste of Hindu society who are known as the dalits or untouchables. In 1908‚ Ambedkar passed the Matriculation exam from Bombay University. After graduating from Elfinstone College‚ Bombay in 1912‚ he joined Columbia University where he was awarded Ph.D for a thesis which he published in book form as “The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British
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