Question

Discovery of dr ambedkar

Answer 1

Ambedkar was a prolific student, earning doctorates in economics from both Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science.[10] In his early career he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India's independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India. In 1956 he converted to Buddhism, initiating mass conversions of Dalits.[11]

Answer 2

December 6, 1956. Dr B R Ambedkar was no more. In his brief condolence message in the Rajya Sabha, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said, “Dr Ambedkar for many, many years had been a very controversial figure in Indian public affairs, but there can be no doubt about his outstanding quality, his scholarship, and the intensity with which he pursued his convictions, sometimes rather with greater intensity than perhaps required by the particular subject, which sometimes reacted in a contrary way.”
In his over 30 years of active public life, Ambedkar contested the ideas and actions of almost every major political stream of those times — the nationalists (Congress), cultural nationalists (Hindu Mahasabha, Jan Sangh), Communists and Socialists. In return, Ambedkar remained a contested figure, in life and in death.
Yet, in the five to six decades since his death, Ambedkar has risen again, this time as a figure that none dare contest, at least not publicly. In fact, there is a clamour among the descendants of the same four political streams to firmly embrace him this year on his 127th birth anniversary. This political discovery of Ambedkar has passed through different phases since he first broke into the national firmament in the early 1920s with his strident campaign to end untouchability.