What are the contributions of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar towards India?

Editor’s Note: This article is from a series of Questions answered by Shekhar Bodhakar

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar contributed towards the Upliftment of all Indians in ways that NO other leader or social reformer did or could. I’ll just focus on TWO of his many achievements, THE GREATEST contributions of Dr. Ambedkar (both related).

1. Dr. Ambedkar revealed to India and worked towards eradicating the root causes of what is preventing India from becoming a great nation again. A belief in caste being the foremost reason. Unless these causes are removed, India can only dream of becoming what it once was, a ‘Sonay ki chiddhiya’ (bird of gold).
2. He was the ONLY person to fight for the freedom of ALL Indians from ALL dictators.

THOSE WHO THINK DR. AMBEDKAR DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE.. THINK AGAIN !!

I decided to write this reply after reading many answers giving reasons why Dr. Ambedkar DID NOT participate in the Indian freedom struggle.

MOST ASSUMED THAT HE DIDN’T or his contributions were negligible.

Read the following quote by the greatest Indian freedom fighter carefully (especially the LAST word).

“After giving deep thought to the problem, EVERYBODY WILL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT: Conversion is necessary to the Untouchables as self-government is to India. The ultimate object of both is the same. There is not the slightest difference in their ultimate goal. This ultimate aim is to attain FREEDOM .“- (Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1935 Speech).

Today you will discover what has NEVER been taught in ANY school before and will never be taught by the dominant classes in India.

Dr.Ambedkar was the only person to fight for the freedom of ALL Indians from ALL oppressors and dictators.

In this respect, his struggle for the freedom of ALL Indians, he declared as early as 1935 and again one year later in 1936 at the Nasik conference, Maharashtra.

He is the ONLY PERSON to have saved India from permanently staying in the dark ages where social and scientific progress would have been impossible, as it had been since the decline of the Mauryan empire in Jambudeep, the land that is now called Bharat or India.

Dr. Ambedkar saved India from the greatest imaginable tragedy by NOT participating in the struggle for freedom JUST FOR THE DOMINANT CLASSES, the historically privileged classes. He wanted every single Indian to be free.

To fully appreciate the gravity of what has been said so far, you first must know the real reasons why the Brahmins hated the British and why they wanted them to quit India.

Never before did the Brahmins rebel against any other foreign ruler so vehemently. In fact they enjoyed mutually beneficial relationships with all previous invaders and were even happy to give their daughters in wedlock to the foreigners as long as they maintained the social structure designed by the Brahmins. Only the British were hard to convince..

(Video in Hindi): Why the Brahmins wanted the British to quit India).

1. On 16th May 1775, under the East India regulatory act 1773, Nand kumar Dev became the FIRST EVER BRAHMIN TO BE CONVICTED OF MURDER. Prior to this date the Brahmins had exclusive impunity from state prosecution regardless of the crime.
2. 1795: For the FIRST TIME since the decline of the Ashokan empire, Shudras were granted the right to own property.
3. 1804: Female infanticide banned.
4. 1813: Slavery abolished.
5. Also in 1813: Right to education for all granted.
6. 1817: Punishments according to Varna system made illegal.
7. 1819: A ban was put on the archaic custom of a Brahmin spending the first three nights with the newly wed Shudra bride.
8. 1830: Human sacrificial rituals made illegal.
9. 1835: Compulsory offering of the first born son of a Shudra to the river Ganga made illegal.
10. Also in 1835 on 7th of March, Lord Macaulay fought for and won the right to higher education for Shudras & untouchables and the right to learn English for all non Brahmins.

Under this newly found freedom to education, the iconoclast JYOTIRAO PHULE became the first person to successfully complete matriculation becoming the most educated person from the ‘OBC Catagory’.

DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR was one of the first from the so called untouchable class to be allowed to enrol for a degree under the same right to higher education and Perunthalaivar M.C. Rajah being the first degree holder of the Scheduled Community in India [ B.A in Madras Christian College, Chennai in 1900].

11) Untouchable were granted the right to sit on chairs.

12) The British banned the custom of ‘sati’ in which it was obligatory for the widow of the deceased to be burnt to death.

AND THE LIST CONTINUES…

“All battles for freedom are not on equal moral plane for the simple reason that the motives and purposes behind these battles of freedom are not always the same”. -Dr.Ambedkar,”Plea to the foreigner”

The continual amendments by the Brits to these draconian anti-humanity laws became a great source of worry for the Brahmins. Its about time they started a movement to kick them out.

WHO STARTED THE “SWARAJ”  AND “QUIT INDIA” MOVEMENTS AND WHY?

BALAGANGADHARA TILAK

The first and strongest advocate of Swaraj (“self-rule”) was a Chitpavan Brahmin, Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920); also know as Lokmanya. He was known as “the father of Indian unrest” by the British.

The Age of Consent Act, 1891, also Act X of 1891, was a legislation enacted in British India on 19 March 1891 which raised the age of consent from 10 years for sexual intercourse for all girls, married or unmarried, to twelve years of age in all jurisdictions.

The Chitpavan Brahmins, with Tilak as their leader, were against this 1891 Age of Consent bill, seeing it as INTERFERENCE with Hinduism and a dangerous precedent.

REFERENCE: Jai Narain Sharma-Political Thought of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak- Concept Publishing Company-ISBN 13:9788180695841)

Dr. Ambedkar, on the other hand, had TWO freedoms to fight for. Firstly, he wanted independence from the 2-3 percent Brahmins and following that, independence from the British.

No wonder the Brahmins wanted to expel the British from India. For then, they would once again become the lawmakers and live as gods.

Whereas Dr. Ambedkar was the ONLY person who truly struggled for the freedom of ALL Indians of ALL classes from ALL dictators, giving special attention to the rights of women and the deprived castes in what was to become an “Independent” country. It is no surprise that for this reason, the masses began to refer to Ambedkar-the-Great as Babasaheb, meaning respected father (grandfather in some areas) for he attended to their needs as a loving father would do.

In his struggle for freedom, Dr. Ambedkar earned a special place in the hearts of the poor and the deprived, the downtrodden victims of grave atrocities, the oppressed and the suppressed, the mentally crushed and broken, the women and widows, the workers, the orphans, and the disabled.

Had Dr. Ambedkar been unsuccessful in securing those rights for the common person, it is evident that India would not have TRULY been an independent country. There would simply have been a PERMANENT TRANSFER OF POWER from the British to the most ardent dictators, the Brahmins on 15th August 1947.

It was not until the 26th January 1950, when the Constitution of India came into force that India truly became an independent democratic country free from both, the British and the Brahmanic rule.

Indian Independence act 1947 chapter 30 clearly states that:

15 AUGUST 1947 shall be called ‘THE APPOINTED DAY’ (Not Independence Day).

On 15th August 1947 the British were replaced by the Brahmins. On 26th January 1950 India gained complete freedom, officially freeing itself from the Brahmanic rule too. So the true Indian independence day is 26th January 1950 and not 15th August 1947 as is commonly assumed and vehemently promotion by successive governments dominated by Brahmins.

Re: Dr. Ambedkar’s Speech on the Indian constitution:

On 25th Nov 1949 in his last parliamentary speech as the chairman of the drafting committee, Dr Ambedkar said, “On the 26th Jan 1950 India “WILL be” an independent country.”

NOTE:

If India had gained independence on the 15th of August 1947, Dr. Ambedkar would NOT have made the above statement in 1949 referring to 26th Jan 1950.

Further ahead, in the same speech, he AGAIN points to the future FOR THE SECOND TIME and says:

“On the 26th Jan 1950, India “would be” a democratic country”. “This means that before 1950 India WAS NOT a democracy. BEFORE 1950 INDIA WAS REFERRED TO AS HINDUSTAN (which incidentally disintegrated to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar etc).

26th January is the actual Indian independence Day (FIVE reasons)

1. The chief architect of the Indian constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar specifically said so in his last official parliamentary speech as the chairman of the drafting committee.
2. Indian Independence Act 1947 chapter 30 states that 15 Aug 1947 shall be called the APPOINTED DAY (not Independence Day).
3. It was on 26th January 1950 that INDIA was officially CREATED and HINDUSTAN WAS ABOLISHED.
4. If the CURRENT Constitution didn’t come into fruition:

• NO Non-Brahmin would have tasted complete freedom and
• NO SO CALLED UNTOUCHABLE WOULD HAVE TASTED “ANY” FREEDOM at all. These being freedoms that the uninformed Indian takes for granted.

5. If it wasn’t for 26 January you most probably would never have heard of Dr. Ambedkar and his legacy (unless some foreigner re discovered him in the future)

26th Jan is Indian Independence Day (from the Manuvadi Brahmins). On 15th Aug 1947, the comparatively little freedom that the deprived castes and women had previously gained, thanks to the British, was now at the mercy of the Brahmins.

For 29 months, from the 15 Aug 1947 TO 26 Jan 1950, the Manuvadi were the happiest people on earth. THEY became free from British rule. Power was TRANSFERRED from the British to the BRahmin-Bania alliance.

So then, instead of the British, the Brahmins became the rulers (through TRANSFERENCE of POWER). Their happiness dwindled on 26th November 1949, when it was decided that the newly authored constitution by Dr. Ambedkar would be officially implemented from the 26th January 1950. This day (26th November) is now acknowledged and celebrated as CONSTITUTION DAY making Dr. Ambedkar the father of Indian independence too, for he was the ONLY one who secured those freedoms for EVERY citizen without discrimination.

(FOUNDING FATHER OF MODERN INDIA; Title given to Dr.B.R. Ambedkar by Columbia University for playing his part in authoring the Indian Constitution)

As soon as the Manuvadi Brahmins realised that the Indian Constitution was to be based on principles favouring humanity, they were the first ones to oppose it so that they could have a constitution based on the Manusmriti and other religious texts.

(BBC HINDI Video: Exposes the secrets in the Manusmriti, an archaic book of draconian anti-humanity laws).

Thats why I say: If it wasn’t for the Constitution, we probably would NEVER have heard about Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar and his legacy or mission and most likely would have had to just wait until a foreigner re-discovered him. We would have gone back to the dark ages when the laws of Manu were the only laws.

One worryimg cause of concern is:

There is an open secret that many extreme right wing BRAHMANTVA (disguised as Hindutva) leaders, in collaboration with the largest known terrorist organisation in the world, the RSS are planning to replace the current Indian Constitution with an alternative religious constitution. This is nothing less than a planned ‘latent- coup’ because it is being GRADUALLY achieved by making regular unconstitutional amendments to the current constitution. Dr. Ambedkar had foreseen that this could be a real possibility and warned the new independent India of this in his last speech as the chairman of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution.

TWO QUESTION THAT I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYONE ASKING:

1. Why was Dr. Ambedkar the ONLY person who struggled to fight for the freedom of ALL Indians regardless of class, creed, colour or gender?
2. Why has the above fact NEVER been highlighted by the Indian media, educational establushments and the progressive ruling governments ?

It seems there is a conspiracy to subtly defame Dr. Ambedkar, the father of modern India and champion of human rights by not highlighting his contributions. Could it be because he came from what is termed the untouchable class. Even questions on Quora are being asked that prompt the reader into belittling Dr. Ambedkar.

For example :

Was Dr.Bhimrao Ambedkar poor in English?

Why is Dr Ambedkar so overraated?

Author of this article Shekhar Bodhakar is a London based Anti-Caste activist. He is the Composer of Buddhatāla and has also worked as Head of Mathematics department in a London college in the past.

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article are the personal views of the author and not necessarily the views of “Voice of Dissent”.