![]() ![]() Savita Bhimrao Ambedkar or Sharada Kabir (1909 – 2003), was a doctor and the second wife of Babasaheb Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution. Wearing both hats, he proceeded to guide her through the salient points of the Civil Marriage Act - the fallback law that would apply to their case. The delay grieved him - the bridegroom-to-be, who would have loved to be married under its provisions, as much as the Law Minister in charge of steering the new Bill through parliament. ![]() The fusion of his public and private lives could also occur in some amazing ways: in another letter of February 1948, he complained to his intended brahmin bride about how the passage of the Hindu Law of Marriage Bill was held up by a packed legislative calendar. In 1945, visiting Puri as the Labour Member of the Viceroy’s Council, he was refused admittance to the Jagannath temple, and, in Calcutta, the same year, was boycotted by servants at a home to which he had been invited. The rebuffs and slights never did cease, even at the height of his public eminence. ![]()
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