Ambedkar and Maulana Hasrat Mohani at Sardar Patel’s reception
Ramabai, a nine years old girl, in 1906. He graduated in economics and political sciences in 1912, became the father of Yashwant and, in 1913, became an orphan as his father passed away. In 1913, with a grant of 11,5 pounds per month, he enrolled in a three years doctorate study at Columbia University in New York. Bhimrao presented himself with a thesis entitled “Ancient Indian Commerce” and eventually completed his studies in economics in 1916, with the thesis “National Dividend of India - A Historical and Analytical Study”. In the same year, he moved to London where he enrolled at Gray’s Inn courses of law and at the London School of Economics where he took courses in economics. In 1917, after his scholarship came to an end, he was forced to return to
India, but his books that were dispatched on another steamboat, were sunk by a German submarine. In 1920, he began publishing the magazine “Mooknayak” in Bombay, in which he criticized the caste system of the Hindu state. In Kolhapur, after a speech against caste discrimination, Shahaji II, the local Maharaja, called him “the future national leader”, and after having lunch with Ambedkar, he left the rigid society completely shocked when he granted him financial assistance to continue his interrupted studies in London. Having obtained his degree in 1922, Bhimrao Ramji began his law practice, winning many famous defense causes of non-Brahmins against Brahmins. Following the achievement of India’s Independence on 15 August 1947, the new Indian 65