The architect of the Constitution
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was a jurist, economist, social reformer, and the chairman of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution. Educated at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, he brought rigorous comparative-law training to the founding document of the republic.
Equal citizenship
Ambedkar's life work was the fight for equal citizenship — against caste-based discrimination, for the social and economic rights of Dalits and other marginalized communities, and for the guarantees embedded in Articles 14, 15, 17, and 21 of the Constitution.
Why we honor him
For IOC USA, Ambedkar is the conscience that asks us to measure any community by how it treats those at its margins.
