Born on April 14, 1891, in Mhow (now Dr Ambedkar Nagar) in Madhya Pradesh, Dr Ambedkar belonged to the Mahar caste, a community regarded as "untouchable" under the rigid caste system of the time.
Dr Ambedkar, left, at the Fourth Conference of the World Fellowships of Buddhists, held in 1956 in Nepal Referred to as the "darling of the dispossessed" by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha ...