- Lived:
- 14 April 1891, Mhow cantonment (now Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Madhya Pradesh) → Satara, Bombay (Mumbai), New York, London, Delhi; died 6 December 1956, Delhi
- Field:
- law, economics, and social revolution — chairman of the committee that drafted the Constitution of India; founder of the Navayana Buddhist movement
- The Big Idea:
- Caste is not a division of labour but a division of labourers, graded one above another — and no republic can stand on that base. Political democracy must become social democracy, or it will not survive.
- In their words:
- "I will not die a Hindu." (Yeola, 1935 — a promise kept twenty-one years later, six weeks before he died)
- If you remember one thing:
- The boy made to sit on a gunny sack outside the classroom, forbidden to touch the tap, grew up to write the rulebook of the world's largest democracy — and still insisted the rulebook was the smaller half of the work.