Ambedkar’s doctorate focused on colonial finance, not on caste
Evidence
While Ambedkar did write a paper called “Castes in India” in 1916 during his years in Columbia University, the subject of his doctoral dissertation was not the caste system. His doctoral work was on The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India: A Study in the Provincial Decentralisation of Imperial Finance, and it was later published by P.S. King and Co., London, in 1925, with a foreword by Edwin Seligman who taught Ambedkar at Columbia. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1224
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Corrects a widespread misapprehension about Ambedkar’s scholarship; connects to his later economic work and his account of caste as a political-economic structure rather than a purely religious one.