[3] When Indian constitution was being framed, Kenvi visited the most remote and difficult parts of India and conducted investigations into the situation of tribal and Harijan people.

Thakkar Bappa was born on 29 November 1869 in a middle-class family of Bhavnagar in Saurashtra region of Gujarat State India.

He worked as an engineer creditably in Porbander and later went out of India to serve in laying the First Railway Track in Uganda (East Africa).

He was shocked to see the filthy colonies where the Sweepers had to live and made a firm resolve to devote the rest of his life to alleviate the lot of these people.

The Madhya Pradesh state government has instituted an award named in his honor for dedicated services to poor, victimised and totally backward tribal community.

Some believe the Madras Bashai term "appatakkar", meaning a know-all, developed from Thakkar's Tamil name,[5][6][7] though others deny it.