B. R. Ambedkar · Politics
As independent India’s first Law Minister, Ambedkar staked his office on rewriting Hindu personal law to give women rights to property, inheritance, and divorce. When the bill was blocked, he resigned - convinced that a constitution promising equality while leaving the family unreformed was built on rotten ground.
You learned that Ambedkar drafted the Hindu Code Bill to reform the personal law governing marriage, property, and inheritance so that women would be legal equals; that orthodox opposition blocked it; and that he resigned from the cabinet, holding that constitutional equality is hollow if inequality ‘between sex…
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