Opinion: Who can claim Ambedkar as their own?
India TodayVarious kinds of people could claim Dr BR Ambedkar as their own. Comparing the enormous difference between the monetary contributions made by white Americans for the betterment of blacks with the money collected by Gandhi for his Harijan Sevak Sangh, Ambedkar concluded in an unfinished work, “A People at Bay”, that “Americans have a social conscience while the Hindus have none.” In “Buddha or Karl Marx”, a piece unpublished during his lifetime, Ambedkar said there could be “no doubt” that the “communist dictatorship” in the Soviet Union had “wonderful achievements to its credit”. So, those opposed to Savarkar’s ideological legacy could point that in “Pakistan or the Partition of India”, Ambedkar said the idea of a Hindu nation was “arrant nonsense”. Those opposed to the Congress could point out that in the 1951 election manifesto of his political party, the Scheduled Castes Federation, Ambedkar attacked the Congress for not “punishing the corrupt”. Those opposed to communism could point out that in “Buddha or Karl Marx”, Ambedkar said the aim of this philosophy “seems to be to fatten pigs, as if men are no better than pigs”.
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