Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Vision on Women's Empowerment

Abstract

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution may be regarded as

one of the greatest intellectual and social reformers of modern India for his pioneering

contribution in reforming the Hindu social order. He not only struggled throughout his life

for the emancipation of social status of the underprivileged and women in Indian society, he

is one of the few Indian social and political thinkers, who has done original thinking on the

Hindu social order and the status of women within the Hindu society. Exposed to the

Western ideas of humanism and rational thinking, Dr. Ambedkar was appalled at the low

status of women in Hindu society. He not only worked hard at the grassroots level to raise

awareness about the degraded status of women in India but also wrote extensively to counter

the views on gender relations sanctioned by Shastras and upheld by tradition.