30 Facts about Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar
1. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the 14th and
last child of his parents.
2. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's real surname
was Ambawadekar. But his teacher, Mahadev
Ambedkar, gave him Ambedkar's surname in
the school records.
3. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the first
Indian to get a Doctorate (Ph.D.) degree in
Economics from abroad.
4. Dr. Ambedkar is the only Indian whose
statue is attached to Karl Marx in the London
Museum.
5. The credit of giving place to "Ashok Chakra"
in the Indian Tricolour also goes to Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar. Although the National
flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya.
6. Nobel Prize winner Prof. Amartya Sen
considered Dr. B. R. Ambedkar as his father in
economics.
7. For the better development of Madhya
Pradesh and Bihar, Babasaheb had proposed
the division of these states in the 50s, but only
after 2000 Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were
formed by splitting Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.
8. Babasaheb's personal library "Rajgirh"
consisted of more than 50,000 books and it
was the world's largest private library.
9. The book "Waiting for a visa" written by Dr.
Babasaheb is a textbook at Columbia
University. Columbia University made a list of
the world's top 100 scholars in 2004 and the
first name on that list was Dr. Bhimrao
Ambedkar.
10. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was a master in
64 subjects. He had knowledge of 9
languages like Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit, English,
French, German, Marathi, Persian, and
Gujarati. Apart from this, he studied all the
religions of the world in a comparative way for
almost 21 years.
11. In the London School of Economics,
Babasaheb completed 8 years of studies in just
2 years 3 months. For this, he studied 21 hours
a day.
12. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's initiation into
Buddhism with his 8,50,000 supporters
historically in the world, because it was the
largest conversion in the world.
13. "Mahant Veer Chandramani", a great
Buddhist monk who initiated Babasaheb to
Buddhism, called him "the modern Buddha of
this age".
14. Babasaheb is the first and only person in
the world to receive a valuable doctorate
degree named "Doctor All Science" from the
London School of Economics. Many intelligent
students have tried for it, but they have not
been successful until now.
15. Worldwide, the highest number of songs
and books written in the name of the leader is
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
16. Governor Lord Linlithgow and Mahatma
Gandhi believed that Babasaheb is more
intelligent than 500 graduates and thousands
of scholars.
17. Babasaheb was the world's first and only
Satyagrahi, who did Satyagraha for drinking
water.
18. In 1954, in the "World Buddhist Council"
held in Kathmandu, Nepal, Buddhist monks
had given Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar the
highest title of Buddhism "Bodhisattva". His
famous book "The Buddha and his Dhamma" is
the "scripture" of Indian Buddhists.
19. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had considered
three great men, Lord Buddha, Saint Kabir, and
Mahatma Phule as their "instructor".
20. Babasaheb's statue is one of the tallest
statues in the world. His birth anniversary is
also celebrated all over the world.
21. Babasaheb was the first lawyer from the
backward class.
22. Based on a global survey called "The
Makers of the Universe" a list of the top 100
humanist people of the last 10 thousand years
was made by Oxford University, with which the
fourth name was Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
23. Babasaheb Ambedkar has given many
suggestions in the book "The Problem of
Rupee-Its Origin & its solution" about the
demonetization that is being discussed all
around in the present time.
24. Everywhere in the world, Buddha's closed-
eyed statues and paintings are visible, but
Babasaheb, who was also a good painter,
made the first painting of Buddha in which
Buddha's eyes were opened.
25. The first Statue of Babasaheb was built in
the year 1950 when he was alive and this
statue is established in Kolhapur City.
26. Babasaheb Ambedkar is the only Indian
who tops the world's 1st talented person,
according to Cambridge University, England
2011.
27. Using the principles from Babasaheb
Ambedkar's book "Problem of Rupee: Its Origin
and Solutions," RBI was established on April
1st, 1935.
28. The first Indian to advocate in front of the
Southborough Commission for the "Universal
Adult Franchise" was Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
29. At the 7th session of the Indian Labour
Conference, held in New Delhi on November
27, 1942, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar reduced
the working period from 12 to 8 hours.
30. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar also instituted
the "Revision of Scale of Pay," "Leave Benefit,"
and "Dearness Allowance" (DA).
So, these were 25 unknown facts about this
great Indian scholar who paved the way for the
upliftment of crores of Scheduled tribes and
Scheduled people of India. He is treated as
God by crores of his followers.
