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From: Shiva Shankar <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:41 AM
Subject: Ambedkar Chair at Columbia U
To:
'... Ambedkar later recounted that at Columbia University he experienced
social equality for the first time ...'
TOI, April 4, 2010.
Columbia University to have an Ambedkar Chair.
New York: Columbia University has instituted a chair in Constitutional Law
in the name of B.R.Ambedkar and two Jagdish Bhagwati Fellowships after
India's renowned economist who presently teaches at the university. "This
initiative adds an important dimension to Columbia Univeristy's long and
illustrious association with India", Meera Shankar, India's ambassador to
the US said. "This chair commemorates one of the great leaders of India in
the 20th century and one of this university's eminent alumni, Ambedkar", she
added.
Ambedkar was a student of the renowned philosopher and psychologist John
Dewey at Columbia University, where he came after recieving a scholarship
from the Maharaja of Baroda. He earned an MA and a PhD from Columbia and
obtained a DSc at the London School of Economics. Ambedkar later recounted
that at Columbia he experienced social equality for the first time,
according to school records.
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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
-AMBEDKAR
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