Dr. B.K Ambedkar’s Social efforts in upliftment the depressed classes

B.R Ambedkar was a giant among genius and a social reformer. He was the most gifted and qualified untouchable, who was born on 14 April 1891. He devoted his whole life for untouchables Socio-Economic upliftment. He stated that political democracy must be based on social democracy. He believed that a social organization should be free from rigid social barriers. Dr. Ambedkar was a social agitator. As we know the upper class did not treated well with untouchables. Ambedkar was well-conversant with the socio-economic condition of the backward community in our Sub-Continent. He implements his requirements through legislation and social pressure. So In this paper I will discuss his efforts to uplift untouchables. He fought against the protagonists of inequality and exploitation, and made daring efforts to inspire the down-trodden classes to raise the banner of revolt against the Hindu social system. The first shot to indicate the freedom of untouchables were fired by him in 1927 at Mahad. Along with other leaders of the untouchables, he also demanded separate electorates for untouchables. He also adopted methods of Satyagraha. He started so many schools and colleges to uplift depressed class. B.R Ambedkar was influential for signing the Poona Pact which provided for reservation of seats for the community in the general Hindu constituencies. The major theoretical description of caste system by Ambedkar was in his presidential speech assumed to be delivered at the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal, Lahore, at the end of March 1936. According to Ambedkar, caste is not just a division of labour. It is a hierarchy in which the division of labour is graded one above the other.