Who was Dr.Bhim Rao Ambedkar? family?Unknown facts?Popular Books?

"I wake up at night because my society is sleeping."

                                                       -Dr.Bhim Rao Ambedkar

Who was BR Ambedkar(Baba Saheb)?

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (April 14, 1891 - December 6, 1956), popularly known as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, was an Indian polytheist, jurist, economist, politician, and social reformer. ... in 1956, he embraced Buddhism. In 1990, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor.

Date of birth: 14 April 1891

Birthplace: Mhow (now Dr. Ambedkar Nagar), Madhya Pradesh

Death: 6 December 1956 (age 65)

Tombstone: Chaitya Bhoomi, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Another Name: Babasaheb Ambedkar

Nationality: Indian

Father: Ramji Maloji Sakpal

Mother: Bhimabai

Wife: Ramabai Ambedkar (married 1906 - died 1935), Dr. Savita Ambedkar (married 1948 - died 2003)

Son: Yashwant Bhimrao Ambedkar

Grandson: Prakash Ambedkar

Educational degrees: University of Mumbai (BA), Columbia University (MA, PhD, LL.D.), London School of Economics (MSc, DSC), Graduate in ( Barrister-at-law)

Awards / Honors: Bodhisattva (1956), Bharat Ratna (1990), First Colombian Ahead of Their Time (2004), The Greatest Indian (2012)

Political Parties: Scheduled Cast Federation, Independent Labor Party, Republican Party of India

Social Organizations:Bahishkrit Hitakarini(Excluded Hitachi Sabha), Samta Sainik Dal(Equality Soldiers)

Unknown facts about BR Ambedkar 

1. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the fourteenth and last child of his parents.

2. The real surname of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was Ambavadekar. But his teacher, Mahadev Ambedkar, who considered him very much, named him Ambedkar from Ambavadekar in school records.

3. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the first Indian to go abroad and earn a doctorate (PhD) degree in Economics.

4. Dr. Ambedkar is the only Indian whose statue is in London Museum with Karl Marx.

5. The credit for giving place to the "Ashoka Chakra" in the Indian tricolor also goes to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.

6. Prof. Economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Amartya Sen, Dr. B. R Ambedkar is considered his father in economics.

7. For the better development of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Babasaheb had proposed a partition in the 50s, but it was only in 2000 that Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand were divided.

8. Most of the statues in the world belong to Babasaheb. His birth anniversary is also celebrated all over the world.

9.Governor Lord Linlithgow and Mahatma Gandhi believed that Babasaheb was more intelligent than 500 graduates and thousands of scholars.

10.The first Statue of Babasaheb was built in 1950 while he was still alive, and the Statue is in the city of Kolhapur.

Books by Dr. BR Ambedkar 

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had written a total of 32 books,"The constitution of India" was one of them.

  Some popular books 

 1.National share of India                                                          

 2.Castes and their mechanization in India                             

 3.Small scale agriculture and its treatment in India             

 4.Original Hero (Weekly)                                                         

 5.Decentralization of imperial finance in British India        

 6.RS Problem: Emergence and Solution                                

 7.Emergence of Provincial Finance in British India             

 8.Excluded India (Weekly)                                                       

 9.Janata (Weekly)                                                                      

 10.Genocide                                                                                  

 11.Union vs freedom                                                                    

 12.Thoughts on Pakistan                                                             

 13.Release of Shri Gandhi and untouchables                            

 14.Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah                                                  

 15.What did Congress and Gandhi do for the untouchables   

 16.Who and how shudra                                                              

 17.Maharashtra linguistic province                                           

 18.Lord Buddha and His Religion