MERITORIOUS AMBEDKAR VERSUS NON-MERITORIOUS CENTER FOR AMBEDKAR STUDIES

I am thinking of writing about some non-meritorious academic social science or humanities centers and its functions in the higher education institutions and universities in South Asia. I am writing it purely from my personal experiences with the various teaching and research communities who are running those centers non-meritoriously in the Social Sciences. They are:

Center for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSE&IP)

Center for Women Studies (CWS)

Center for Ambedkar Studies (CAS)

Center for Gandhi Studies (CGS)

Center for Tribal Studies (CTS)

Center for Human Rights Studies (CHRS)

Center for Gender Studies (CGS)

Center for Dalit & Minority Studies (CDMS)

Center for Islamic Studies (CIS)

It does not mean that departments of various disciplines in the higher education institutions and universities are filled with meritorious teaching and research communities. They are in fact same on par with the above centers in spoiling the spirit of academic discourses. Academic centers have become more centers for chitchatting with the same ‘caste’ teachers, scholars and students.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared that Gautham Buddha (He is politically being added by the academic mafia of Mahars), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and Jawaharlal Nehru (He is politically being added by then Congress regime at the center) have influenced the Indian society from their life and struggles so UGC has decided to set up centers at the universities in India. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar were the genuine figures in this list of great personalities who changed the Indian society from their struggles (M K Gandhi and Dr B R Ambedkar) and knowledge ( Dr B R Ambedkar). If M K Gandhi was succeeded in politics then Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has created enormous knowledge in the areas of history, politics, geography, human rights, sociology, economics, religious studies apart from his ground breaking struggles against caste system which created Untouchables in subcontinent. Arundhati Roy’s introduction for Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste with The Doctor and the Saint - can give you massive information about the way in which Ambedkar’s followers and M K Gandhi were fighting for the rights of ‘privileged’ groups. If M K Gandhi argued for the rights of PASSENGER INDIANS (Mostly high class and come from the so called purified castes) by ignoring the pathetic condition of INDENTURED INDIANS (Low class with low caste back ground) in South Africa then Ambedkar followers in the Center are resenting non-Mahar (Maharashtra), non-Parayar (Tamil Nadu) and non-Mala (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana) groups in subcontinent. Indeed, Ambedkar had organized meetings with his ‘mahar’ groups from the beginning. Eleanor Zelliot’s Dr B R Ambedkar and Mahar Movement was the best example so witness his ‘mahar movement’ in which it strict to ‘mahar’ community. (Ironically, non-meritorious teachers and researchers of Center for Ambedkar studies resent the Madiga Studies for arguing against the Justice studies that have been taken by the non- Mahar, non- Parayar and non- Mala academicians in the meritorious  studies of the university centers and departments).

There are few namesake non-mahars in his life but they are not countable. So the chain of resenting most marginalized sections can be seen in the works of M K Gandhi or Dr. B.  R. Ambedkar. But the only difference between Ambedkar and Gandhi is ‘if former had created enormous knowledge with modern principles of equality, liberty, freedom and fraternity then later had superimposed purity and impurity in the society. One is a modern with human rights principles another is a human rights violator with holding the notion of purity and impurity.

Principal reason behind Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s knowledge is his western education at the world renowned Christian Universities- Colombia University in the United States of America and London School of Economics in the Great Britain which ruled India for more than 190 years, whereas M K Gandhi went to non-meritorious institutions-running by the Indian community in South Africa and London. So if Columbia University and London School of Economics have enabled Dr B R Ambedkar to create knowledge then petty academic institutions in which M K Gandhi had studied had trained him in a way that he can bargain with the power politics so he succeeded him in political sphere unlike Ambedkar in intellectual sphere. Most of intellectuals who went to prestigious universities in the west are struggling to live in the subcontinent with their ‘western’ education training which trained them to be with ‘too much’ academic knowledge, ‘too much’ dedication for their profession, ‘too much’ ethics and ‘too much’ honest in their daily life with ‘hard working culture’. It is hard to live in a society which is carrying the spirit of ‘culture of off’ unlike the ‘culture of on’ of the white western society. Dr B R Ambedkar had come from this ‘culture of on’ of western society whereas ‘his’ followers lived in their respectable places-places of ‘culture of off’. It is just like ‘frog in well’.

UGC has allotted fund to set up few centers for the study of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Gandhi, Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy and Women at various state and central universities in India. Most of state and central universities started those centers for studying the life histories of Ambedkar and Gandhi.

100% of Center for ‘Ambedkar’ studies has been captured by ‘his’ non-meritorious followers who are teaching in the departments of political sciences at the every university. Of course it’s not only Ambedkar centers have captured by ‘his’ followers but also Center for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policies at every university. Most of these Center Directors or Heads are academically unfit and nobody known their names in the academic circles.

Most of the central universities and state universities, as a matter of fact, have occupied by the non-meritorious reservation holders with few personal exemptions and candidates belonged to ‘agrarian’ or ‘business’ categories politically recruited under the open category system. I have attended many seminars, conferences and workshops organized by these non-meritorious teachers and researchers but I have seen their hands shaking while they are ‘reading’ their papers in front of ‘other’ English speaking academicians without ‘shivering’ their hands and faces. Their faces resemble inferior complexities and their hands are shivering. In fact I had presented many papers in various national and international seminars, conferences and workshops in front of eminent social scientists such as Professor Gopal Guru and Professor Satish Deshpande at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Indeed, Professor T K Oomen had chaired my presentation at the Pondicherry University way back to half decade ago. I used to be like them but my perceiveness for intellectual discourses have shadow my inferior complexities over a period of time. Credit goes to CSCS.

Non-meritorious teachers at the CAS do conduct national seminars and conferences but speakers come from the ‘same caste’ ‘same human rights orator’ ‘same Sudra bourgeois’ and ‘same vernacular’ speaking non-academicians.  The purpose of the seminar has gone the moment organizer is a vernacular speaking non-meritorious teacher. They share together some chitchat and they make fun on ‘some’ dedicated scholars who produce knowledge unlike these ‘chaired professors’ who spent entire their life to pass days, months and years till they retire in the name of ‘first generation’ or ‘lower caste’ back ground. They have many excuses to escape from the knowledge creation.

CAS or CSSE&IP or CDMS or CTS are full of ‘same caste or tribe’ and it is filled with the spirit of ‘gentleman agreement’ with the other non-meritorious ‘agrarian’ castes who join the universities by using various political recommendations.

It has become a problem when eminent Professors like Gopal Guru or Ashish Nandi or Anand Teltumbde or Arundhati Roy make comment on these non-meritorious centers, departments, institutions and universities the way in which they produce unproductive activities threatening knowledge creation. These non-meritorious use the weapon of caste to threaten intellectuals legally under the various ‘atrocities act’.

I never forget the words of leading Dalit intellectual in subcontinent Professor Gopal Guru with whom I travelled to Buddhist place from the BHU. In his own words ‘how a Ph.D. holder from the Political Science department of the JNU, have spoiled the spirit of academic scholarship by entertaining only his ‘community’ people by leaving the passion for knowledge creation. His non-meritorious alumni of JNU, mostly coming from the reservation section, who are working in the state or central universities have became mere political activists rather than scholars in every academic centers. Most of JNU or University of Hyderabad (UoH) degree holders coming from the reservation section, who are working with the subcontinent universities, are outside of the intellectual field and most of politically and manipulated researchers became ‘puppets in the hands of dominant but non-meritorious teachers’ just to get teaching jobs in the academic institutions. One can see the gentleman agreement of non-meritorious irrespective of caste, religion, gender, region etc.

Most of these CAS communities can’t even spell out eminent social scientist names such as Aloysius or Gail Omvedt or Eleanor Zelliot or Nicholas Dirk or Perry Anderson or Anand Teltumbde or Sharmila Rege who are seriously working on the literature of liberation. Very interesting observation is 70% of non-meritorious teachers and researchers in the social sciences does not even know the name of internationally renowned eminent Social Scientist Professor Gopal Guru who is working very seriously on ‘their’ liberator in the intellectual arena or does not know even the existence of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) journal in the subcontinent. This is my personal experience with ‘reservation holders as well as agrarian non-meritorious groups’ at many state and central universities in subcontinent.

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MERITORIOUS DR B R AMBEDKAR VERSUS NON-MERITORIOUS CENTER FOR AMBEDKAR STUDIES