Babasaheb Ambedkar Quotes

To the 'Untouchables', Hinduism is a veritable chamber of horrors. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (Writings and Speeches, Volume: 9, pg: 296)

Seligman described Ambedkar as ‘an excellent student and a nice fellow, moderate, broad, and able’.

Fond of Shakespeare, Ambedkar would later cite apt lines from various plays to fit the circumstances.

One he was especially attracted to was Brutus’s words in Julius Caesar: ‘There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

As Seligman would write ten years later in the preface to Ambedkar’s published PhD, ‘The value of Mr. Ambedkar’s contribution to this discussion lies in the objective recitation of the facts and the impartial analysis …’9

Ambedkar boldly asserted that the essence of caste was the control of women’s sexuality—foremost, the practice of endogamy.