B.R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day: 10 amazing facts about him
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The 14th and last baby of his parents was Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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The real name of Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar is Ambawadekar. But in his school records, he was assigned the name of Dr. Ambedkar by a teacher called Maharshabera Ambedkar.
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Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar was the first in India to receive a Ph.D. degree from abroad an economist.
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He is the only Indian whose statue is bound to Karl Marx in the London Museum.
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Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar deserves credit for placing the "Ashok Chakra" in India's tricolour. Even though Pingali Venkayya has designed the nation's flag.
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Professor Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, regarded Dr. Ambedkar as his father.
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Babasaheb had proposed the split of these States in the 1950s for better development but it was only after 2000 that they were divided up into Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand as a result of splitting Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.
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The "Rajgirh" library of Baba Saheb contained over 50 000 books, making it the largest private library in the world.
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A book entitled "Waiting to get a visa" written by Dr. Babasaheb is one of Columbia's textbooks. In 2004, Columbia University published a list of some of the world's most important academics, and Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was among them.