New Delhi, April 14 -- While Babasaheb B R Ambedkar is well-known as the man who drafted the Constitution of India and who led the country's Scheduled Castes in their fight for dignity, less well-known are his views on land ownership, India's village-based agrarian economy through the prism of caste and the importance of land in the emancipation of Dalit Indians.

In his paper titled, B R Ambedkar on Caste and Land Relations in India, academic Awanish Kumar, currently an Honorary Fellow at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh and Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore presented "Ambedkar's thoughts on land and agriculture and their relationship with class and cast...