One of his critical works is The Annihilation of Caste, which was an undelivered speech he wrote in 1936.Įlected to chair the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly in 1947, Ambedkar abandoned many of his radical convictions as he steered the Assembly through the process of drafting India's constitution. Amedkar became a staunch anti-oppression advocate for Dalits through his politics and writing. He argued that this system was sanctified through religious codes that forbade intermixture of castes and confined social interaction to a regulated structure. He subsequently obtained master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the London School of Economics (1916–1922).Īmbedkar saw the caste system as an unequal mode of organization of social relations, with the pure and the impure at either extreme.
at Columbia University in New York (1913–1916). Image from Flickr, shared under Creative Commons Licenseīhimrao Ramji Ambedkar belonged to the Mahar caste, one of the untouchable/Dalit castes in India. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility.
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