Where You Walk in Dr Ambedkar's Footsteps

On Dr B R Ambedkar's 134 birthday anniversary, view the historic sites associated with the great man who wrote our Constitution.

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Mhow was where Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891.
A grand memorial was unveiled at his birthplace on his 100th birth anniversary in 1991.

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Dr Ambedkar did an MA in economics at Columbia University, New York, in 1915. And then moved to London after enrolling for the bar at Gray's Inn and at the London School of Economics for a PhD.
His home, 10, King Henry's Road in London, is the Ambedkar Foundation's HQ in the UK.

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On his return from England, Dr Ambedkar lived in Bombay, teaching, practising law.
He built a house, Rajgriha, named after the capital of the Magadh kingdom, and lived there for some years.

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Dr Ambedkar led a satyagraha to a public water tank in Mahad in March 1927.
The Mahad Satyagraha was to allow Dalits use of water in public places.
March 20 is now Social Empowerment Day in India.

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The Kalaram Temple movement was launched to allow Dalits entry into temples.
Some 15,000 marched on March 2, 1930 to the Ram temple in Nashik.
Outside the temple, they sat, singing bhajans, demanding access, staying there for many days.

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The Dr Ambedkar National Memorial or the Mahaparinirvan Sthal opened in 2018 at 26, Alipur Road in New Delhi, where he lived from 1951 to 1956.

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On October 14, 1956, Dr Ambedkar and some 400,000 followers embraced Buddhism at Deekshabhoomi, a shrine to Navayana Buddhism in Nagpur.

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When Dr Ambedkar died on December 6, 1956, he was cremated near the beach in Dadar, north central Bombay.
Now known as Chaityabhoomi, it is a place of pilgrimage for the millions and millions of Indians who revere Babasaheb.

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