SHREESHA. A
What Happened and When On 14 April 1891: Bhim is born at Madhya Pradesh, the fourteen child of Subedar Ramji Sakpal and Bhimabai. 1896 Bhim’ s mother dies. 1900 : Bhim is enrolled at the government middle school in satara. 1904 : Bhim attends Elphinstone High School in Bombay. 1907: Bhim passes the matriculation examinations. 1908: Bhim is admitted to Elphinstone college, Bombay. 1912: Bhim passes the BA exams from university of Bombay. Bhim’s first son, yashwant, is born. February 1913 : Bhim’s father dies. July 1913: Bhim goes to Columbia University. 1915 : Receives an MA degree from Columbia University. June 1916: Leaves Columbia University after completing work for a PHD and joins the London school of Economic and Political science. He also trains for law at gray’s Inn. 1917: Returns to India after his scholarship is terminated by Baroda state. Appointment as military secretary to the maharaja of Baroda, but leaves Baroda soon after. 1918:Accepts a professor’s job at Sydenham college of commerce and economics, Bombay. 1919: Appears before the southborough commission. January 1920: Starts a Marathi newspaper, Mooknayak. March 1920:presides over a depressed classes conference at kolhapur. July 1920: Bhim leaves India to resume his studies in London. June 1921:London university accepts Bhim’s thesis provincial decentralization of imperial finance in British India and awards him an MSc.degree.1922:Bhim is called to the bar. 1922-13 : Spends some time reading economics at the university of Bonn in Germany. 1923: Bhim returns to India. His thesis The problem of the rupee- it’s origin and it’s solution is accepted for a DSc. Degree. 1924: Starts law practice in the Bombay high court. Founds the Bahishkrit Hitkarini sabha . 1926: Nominated member of the Bombay legislative Council. March 1927:Starts Mahad satyagraha to secure the untouchables right to drink water from the Chavdar tank . April 1927:starts and edits a bimonthly Marathi paper, Bahishkrit Bharat. June1927: awarded PHD degree from Columbia University. December 1927:Second conference at Mahad. 1928: introduces the vatan bill in the Bombay. 1930-32:Represents India untouchables at the round table conference. September 1932:Singn the Poona pact to save Gandhi’s life. 1934: Leaves his home in parents and moves residence to Rajagriha at Dadar. This was done to accommodated his ever – increasing collection of books. May 1935: His wife, Ramabai, dies. June 1935:Appointed principal of government law college, Bombay. October 1935: At the yeola conference in Nasik, he urges his community to leave Hindustan and embrace another religion. He declares :I solemnly assure you that I will not die a Hindu. August 1936: Bhim founds the independent labour Party. February 1937:The first General Election are held. Bhim is elected member of the Bombay legislative Assembly. March 1937: The Chavdar tank case is decided in a favor of the depressed classes. September 1937: Bhim introduces two bills in the Bombay assembly, one to abolish the Mahar Watan and the other to abolish the Khoti system. May 1938: Bhim resigns as principal of Government law college, Bombay. November 1938: The industrial workers strike. October 1939: Bhim meets Jawaharlal Nehru for the first time. 1941: Bhim fights to recruit Mahar in the army. The Mahar Battalion is Formed. Bhim is appointed to the defence advisory Committee. June 1942:Bhim becomes the first untouchable to join the viceroys executive Council. July 1942:Bhim founds the All- India Scheduled Caste Federation in Nagpur. 1946: Bhim is elected member of the Constituent assembly of India. April1947:Article 17 for the abolition of untouchability is moved by Sardar vallabhbhai patel in the constituent assembly. August 1947: India gets independence. Bhim joins Nehru’s cabinet as the first Law minister of independent India. The constituent assembly appoints him to the drafting committee. February 1948: Bhim completes the draft Constitution. April1948: Bhim marries Dr Sharda Kabir. November 1949: The Constitution assembly adopts the Constitution. September 1951: The Hindu code bill comes up for a final reading. Bhim resigns from the Nehru cabinet because it fails to support the bill. January 1952: Bhim faces defeat in the first Lok Sabha election. March1952: Bhim enters parliament as a member of the Rajya Sabha, representing Bombay. June1952: Columbia University confers on Bhim the honorary degree of LLD. Doctorate of Law, in bi- centennial celebrations held in New York. October 1956: Bhim embrace Buddhism at a historic ceremony in Nagpur, witnessed by thousands of followers. He declares that he will dissolve the scheduled caste federation and establish the Republican Party. December 6 , 1956: Dies at his residence in New Delhi. December 7,1956 : Ambedkar is cremated at Dadar Chowpatty, which is now known as Chaitya Bhoomi Dadar.
