Baroda’s Maharaja funded Ambedkar’s education at Elphinstone and Columbia

Evidence

The reference is to the Maharaja of Baroda, Sayajirao Gaekwad (1863–1939), who pioneered social reform by opening eighteen special schools for Untouchables in his state, and supported Ambedkar’s education—both in India (with a stipend of twenty-five rupees for Ambedkar’s B.A. at Elphinstone College, Bombay) and abroad (his M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University, on a scholarship of 11.5 British pounds per month for three years, in 1913–16). — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1217

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Grounds the material enabling conditions of Ambedkar’s intellectual formation — relevant to how the anticaste movement was seeded by a reformist princely state.

Related

• The Baroda Maharaja funded Ambedkar’s elite education. (similarity 0.96)