Ambedkar Jayanti 2021: Significance| Essay| Ambedkar quotes

 

130th Ambedkar Jayanti: The birth anniversary of Ambedkar Also known as Babasaheb Ambedkar is celebrated on April 14 every year to honour the birth of BR Ambedkar, the creator of the Indian Constitution. The day is blessed to marking Ambedkar’s struggles to uplift the untouchables, women and labourers. The difficulty of Dalits in India had an influential impact on Ambedkar since childhood, and this brought him towards fighting for their principles.

It was on April 14 the year 1891, Ambedkar birth place in present-day Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow. The champion of Dalit rights, the principal architect of the Indian Constitution Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born.

Ambedkar Jayanti is also known as Bhim Jayanti and is celebrated as a public holiday across India since 2015.

History 

B. R. Ambedkar education? He earned doctorates in economics from premier institutes Columbia University and the London School of Economics. He was a scholar in disciplines like law, economics and political science.

While studying law in the Bombay High Court, he tried to support education for the untouchables. He spoke unequivocally against the inequality, injustice and discrimination faced by the members of the Dalit community. His first effective attempt was the founding of the central institution called Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha which intended to help education and socio-economic development, as well as the well-being of the outcasts, at the time referred to as depressed classes. He began many magazines like Mook Nayak, Bahishkrit Bharat, and Equality Janta.

After India’s independence in 1947, Ambedkar accepted Congress’ proposal to serve as the country’s first law minister. He was also appointed chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee on August 29, 1947. On November 26, 1949, the Constitution was adopted by the Constituent Assembly.

Babasaheb Ambedkar died on December 6 in 1956. He was awarded India’s highest civilian honour the Bharat Ratna in 1990.

Some Inspirational Ambedkar quotes

• “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.”

• I like the religion which teaches liberty, equality, and fraternity.

• “If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.”

• Cultivation of the mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

• Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise, both will wither and die.

• “Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.”

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

• “History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.”

• Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of society.

• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.