This incident took place just months before Ambedkar’s death in 1956. After his death, Das ensured that Ambedkar’s work was published, and in 1963, he published "Thus Spoke Ambedkar." It is a collection of speeches delivered by Dr. BR Ambedkar at the Round Table Conference in London and also his views regarding labor, democracy, and the constitution of India. This was the first volume published on Dr. Ambedkar's speeches in 1963, with four subsequent volumes published later. He played an instrumental role in getting Dr. Ambedkar's works published between 1963 and 1980.

In the 1970s, Das managed to complete his education and went on to obtain an MA in History from Punjab University and an LL.B from Delhi University. He used his law degree to litigate at the Supreme Court, where he founded the Ambedkar Mission Lawyers Association and Legal Aid Society in 1989, aiming to help advocates from untouchable groups develop professional competence.

In pre-independent India, when English as a language was confined to the English themselves and the foreign-returned elites of India, Bhagwan Das, a school dropout, could speak fluent English. Das attributed his fluency in English to his English neighbors, Reverend A.A. Andrews and his wife, who made sure that he spoke correct English. Das served with the Royal Air Force as a Radar Operator under the South East Asia Command. After demobilization, he served under various government departments from his hometown Shimla to Saharanpur and Delhi.

Besides English, he also acquired knowledge of Urdu and translated Lyndon Johnson’s book ‘My. Hope for America into Urdu. Retired IPS officer S.R. Darapuri, who also happens to be his relative as his son is married to his daughter, said Mr. Das had toured almost the whole of India to study the problems of Hindu-Muslim riots, religious conflicts, atrocities committed on the Untouchables and tribal people, with the group ‘Threat to Diversity’, ‘Swaraj Mukti Morcha and as Chairman, Samata Sainik Dal. He was also the founder President of Dalit Solidarity People, an organization aiming at uniting Hindu Dalits, Dalit Christians, Sikh Dalits, Muslim Dalits, and Burakumons of Japan and Korea. He had been a storehouse of insight and information; his residence in Delhi had been a mandatory stopover for many renowned scholars like Eleanor Zelliot, Mark Juergensmeyer, Owen Lynch, Marc Gallanter, RK Kshirsagar, Sukhadeo Thorat, etc.

The grasp over the English Language came in handy later in his life also. Das used his knowledge of English to internationalize the issue of caste with involvement in the United Nations.

He spoke to Vidya Bhushan Rawat, a filmmaker, and social activist, who said Mr. Das was invited to deliver a lecture on ‘Discrimination’ by the Peace University, Tokyo (1980) and also addressed several meetings organized by the Burakumins of Japan. He presented the case of untouchability before the UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Commission) in Geneva in 1983. When I came to Delhi in the 1990s, he was my guru, and he initiated me into Ambedkarism. Das also met world leaders like Jimmy Carter, the then US president in 1980. He added that he was one of the founder members of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) (India) and participated in the Conferences held in Kyoto, Japan (1970); Princeton, USA (1979); Seoul, Korea (1986); Nairobi, Kenya (1984), and Melbourne, Australia (1989). He was appointed Director of the Asian Centre for Human Rights of the Asian Conference on Religion and Peace in 1980 and served in that capacity to monitor cases of violation of human rights.

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