Ambedkar Tourist Circuit

Syllabus: General Studies Paper 1

The Central government has announced a special tourist circuit encompassing five key sites associated with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, including his birthplace Mhow, Delhi where he died, and London where he studied. 

The five cities in the tourist circuit as announced by the government are 

• Mhow (his birthplace), 
• London (where he resided and studied), 
• Nagpur (also studied here), 
• Delhi (where he passed away) 
• Mumbai (where he was cremated).

Other Significant Incidence and Places

• The Mahar talab andolan. One of the greatest incidents of expression of freedom for Dalits.
• Mahad Satyagraha was a satyagraha led by Dr. Ambedkar on March 20, 1927 to allow untouchables to use water in a public tank in Mahad, currently in Raigarh district of Maharashtra.
• Pune is another landmark place for Dalit and Ambedkar history, where negotiations were held in the Yerwada jail between Dr. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi on a separate electorate for depressed classes in the legislature of British India in 1932. 
• The result was the Poona Pact signed by Dr. Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes and by Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of upper caste Hindus.
• Kolhapur where in March 1920, another legendary social reformer, Chatrapati Shahuji Maharaj, declared Dr. Ambedkar as the true leader of the oppressed classes in India.