Dr. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR'S CONSTITUTIONAL STRUGGLE FOR DEPRESSED CLASSES AND BACKWARD CLASSES

The present paper made an attempt to reveal the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s concern for the depressed people in India. From a very long time i.e. since ancient period the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes as well as Other Backward Classes were depressed by elite classes in Hindu society. They were leading their life as slaves. They had no well status in the society. For the first time Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj took step to giving reservation to them in his state employment to uplift those classes. And he also took step to prevent Untouchability in his state. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar started constitutional struggle for depressed classes to uplift them by socially, politically, economically and educationally. Babasaheb convinced the British Government in respect of the conditions of those people, and he insisted to the Government to provide secular education and reservation in public services. After Indian independence Dr. Ambedkar stood as an emancipator of depressed classes by giving constitutional reservation in political, educational and employment realm