Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was an Indian social reformer and politician who devoted himself to improving the life of untouchables, particularly of his own caste, the Mahars. Bhimrao Ambedkar was born at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. He attended...

(1891–1956) leader of the untouchables, who fought for their emancipation by legal means. As the son of an army school headmaster, he received a good early education. Supported by the Mahārāja of Baroda, he obtained a grant and was the...

PH.D., Barrister at Law (1891–1956). Indian Bst. who founded a movement in India for converting millions of the Scheduled Castes (‘Untouchables’) to Bsm. Horrified with the conditions in which they lived he dedicated his life to their...

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (April 14, 1891 — December 6, 1956) was an Indian jurist, scholar, Bahujan political leader and a Buddhist revivalist, who is the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Untouchable community,...

About 2,000 low-caste Hindu Indians bowed before orange-robed monks and recited prayers as they converted to Buddhism in a mass ceremony Sunday that they said would bring them dignity in a society that considers them "untouchables.""I feel like I have been reborn," Mahi, a farmer...

After nine days of waiting, Muhammad Shuaib finally heard news of his brother.On Wednesday morning, Muhammad Haneef, the Indian doctor detained in Australia in connection with last month's U.K. terror plot, spoke to his wife, Arshiya Firdaus. She is living in India with their 2-week-old...

An Indian suspect in the failed terror attack on Scotland's busiest airport once worked as an aeronautical engineer, an official said Tuesday, as an Australian investigator traveled to India to expand the British terror inquiry.Kafeel Ahmed, 27, is in a Scottish hospital with burns suffered...

The investigation into failed bomb attacks in Britain is proceeding, even though a suspect believed at the center of the plot was so horribly burned during an attack that it is unlikely police will be able to question or charge him for the foreseeable future.Kafeel...