Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) the first Untouchable to attend college, who went on to earn advanced degrees in the social sciences and law at Columbia University, the London School of Economics, and Grays Inn, who returned to India in the 1920s to launch a civil rights movement for Untouchables, who drafted the constitution for the Republic of India as its first law minister, and who led a mass conversion to Buddhism weeks before this death.
