sanjeevafk/ambedkar-speech-corpus

⚖️ Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Lifetime Speeches, Constituent Assembly Debates & Writings Corpus (1916–1956)

  

A clean, standardized, machine-readable dataset comprising the landmark speeches, Constituent Assembly Debates (CAD), economic treatises, and philosophical discourses of Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), the chief architect of the Constitution of India.

📊 Dataset Statistics

🏛️ Era Distribution

🚀 Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load full Ambedkar corpus with instant streaming
corpus = load_dataset("sanjeevafk/ambedkar-speech-corpus")

# Access sample keynote
sample = corpus["train"][0]
print(sample["title"])
print(sample["date"])
print(sample["tldr"])
print(sample["transcript"][:500])

📜 Key Speeches & Historic Addresses Included

1. 1.Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (1916) — Columbia University
2. 2.Small Holdings in India and Their Remedies (1918) — Journal of the Indian Economic Society
3. 3.Evidence Before the Southborough Committee (1919) — Demand for Universal Franchise
4. 4.The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and Its Solution (1923) — London School of Economics
5. 5.The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India (1925) — Columbia University
6. 6.The Declaration of Human Rights at Mahad Satyagraha (1927) — Chavdar Tank
7. 7.The Burning of Manusmriti (1927) — Declaration of Social Equality
8. 8.Statement Before the Simon Commission (1928) — Statutory Safeguards for Depressed Classes
9. 9.Address to the First Round Table Conference (1930) — London St. James's Palace
10. 10.On Separate Electorates at Second Round Table Conference (1931) — Debate with Gandhi
11. 11.The Poona Pact Declaration (1932) — Reserved Legislative Seats
12. 12.The Historic Yeola Declaration (1935) — "I will not die a Hindu"
13. 13.Waiting for a Visa (1935) — Autobiographical Reminiscences of Untouchability
14. 14.Annihilation of Caste: With a Reply to Mahatma Gandhi (1936) — Magnum Opus Manifesto
15. 15.On the Industrial Disputes Bill (1938) — Defense of the Right to Strike
16. 16.Federation versus Freedom (1939) — Kale Memorial Lecture at Gokhale Institute
17. 17.Thoughts on Pakistan (1940) — Geopolitical Analysis of the Partition Demand
18. 18.Labour and the War Effort (1942) — Tripartite Labour Conference (8-hour workday)
19. 19.Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah (1943) — Critique of Hero-Worship in Indian Politics
20. 20.Labour and Parliamentary Democracy (1943) — Transforming Liberal to Social Democracy
21. 21.Communal Deadlock and How to Solve It (1945) — Constitutional Compromise Formula
22. 22.Maiden Address on the Objectives Resolution (1946) — Constituent Assembly (CAD Vol 1)
23. 23.States and Minorities (1947) — Constitutional State Socialism Blueprint
24. 24.Introducing the Draft Constitution of India (1948) — Constituent Assembly (CAD Vol 7)
25. 25.On Article 32: The Heart and Soul of the Constitution (1948) — Constituent Assembly
26. 26.The Grammar of Anarchy (1949) — Concluding Address on Adopting the Constitution
27. 27.The Buddha and the Future of His Religion (1950) — Maha Bodhi Society, Calcutta
28. 28.Statement on Resignation from the Cabinet (1951) — Hindu Code Bill & Women's Rights
29. 29.Buddha or Karl Marx (1956) — World Fellowship of Buddhists, Kathmandu
30. 30.The Historic Deekshabhoomi Mass Conversion Address (The 22 Vows) (1956) — Nagpur

🏛️ Provenance & Sourcing

Every record in this dataset contains complete provenance, structured headers (## TL;DR executive summary, ## Transcript), full date/location metadata, and bit-level SHA-256 cryptographic hashes mapped directly to official archives (Ministry of External Affairs BAWS Volumes 1–21, Constituent Assembly Debates, Columbia University, Parliament of India).