AMBEDKAR ON NATIONALISM

CHAPTER II A NATION CALLING FOR A HOME That there are factors, administrative, linguistic or cultural, which are the predisposing causes behind these demands for separation, is a fact which is admitted and understood by all. Nobody minds these demands and many are prepared to concede them. But, the Hindus say that the Muslims are …

DEMOCRACY AND HINDU SOCIAL SYSTEM

An excerpt from BAWS, Vol.4 There are various forms of Government known to history—Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy to which may be added Dictatorship. The most prevalent form of Government at the present time is Democracy. There is however no unanimity as to what constitutes Democracy. When one examines the question one finds that there are …

DENUNCIATION OF POONA PACT

The untouchables were forced to sign the Poona Pact under the impact of the coercive fast of Mr.Gandhi. Dr. Ambedkar denounced it the very next day expressing his views, “The untouchables were sad. They had every reason to be sad.” He kept denouncing it till the end of his life in 1956. He denounced it …

RANADE, GANDHI AND JINNAH

PREFACE The Deccan Sabha of Poona invited me to deliver an address on the 101st birthday of the late Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade which it proposed to celebrate and which fell on the18th January 1940. I was not very willing to accept the invitation. For I knew that my views on social and political problems, a discussion of vvhich could not be avoided in a discourseon Ranade, would not very pleasing to  the audience and even perhaps to the members of the Deccan Sabha. in the end I accepted …

AQ!

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. Democracy is not a Form of Government, but a form of social organization. The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the …