The Baroda Maharaja funded Ambedkar’s elite education.
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
Related
- Baroda’s Maharaja funded Ambedkar’s education at Elphinstone and Columbia (similarity 0.96)
- Ambedkar’s doctorate studied provincial finance, not caste. (similarity 0.79)