AMBEDKAR, GANDHI AND NEHRU

Dr B R Ambedkar is an eminent Social Scientist i.e. Economist, Political thinker, Sociologist and Advocate with a strong western knowledge back ground. His western studies at the Christian Universities Colombia University in the United States of America and London School of Economics at the Great Britain have enabled him to architect the Constitution of India with the support of other drafting committee members. His Buddhist or any other indigenous knowledge had never helped him to get any modern knowledge i.e. knowledge of human rights. By the time Ambedkar went to Colombia University or LSE they are filled with many eminent Social Scientists who changed the thought process of him. In fact, there is a huge difference between Ambedkar, Gandhi and Nehru who went to study abroad. If Ambedkar went to study the world prestigious knowledge centers i.e. Colombia University and London School of Economics then Gandhi and Nehru went to study at the non-knowledge centers in South Africa or London. Indeed Gandhi or Nehru never focuses on intellectual field because they went to study with their own personal money to enjoy life in abroad unlike Dr B R Ambedkar who went with merit scholarship which led his life to focus on creating progressive knowledge. His volumes are witness for the academic scholarship he created in the aspects of history, polity, society, culture, Scriptures, religion, constitution etc unlike Gandhi’s or Nehru’s non-serious works which became icons for non-serious academic community of India. Nehru’s The Discovery of India or Gandhi’s My Experience with Truth are nowhere standing in the intellectual arena unlike Ambedkar’s classical pieces running into tens of thousands of pages. Indeed Gandhi and Nehru are intellectually inferiors than Dr B R Ambedkar who is not only a dedicated Social Scientist but also a champion of human rights of people in India. His human rights approach is not only benefited lower sections of the Hindu society but for entire people of the society. If Gandhi’s or Nehru’s National Movement had benefited only to the Brahmins politically, economically, culturally, religiously, educationally then the efforts of Ambedkar had benefited entire Indians. But unfortunately he had forgotten to guide his people in intellectual arena. His guidance of getting political power has ruined the spirit of knowledge creation by his own Mahar/Mala communities. They are focusing on earning money through various back doors like their fellow Hindus. Therefore, there is no difference between Gandhi or Nehru or Ambedkar to lead their followers to earn money through various unethical ways. If anybody observes Hindus or Mahars/Malas in terms of corruption lies, unethical activities or uncivilized thoughts or practices then you can’t find difference between them. Both groups are competing for power, power in many ways. If Hindus use their hereditary hierarchies to ruin the spirit of knowledge creation then Untouchable communities are using caste as a weapon to capture power. Both are using caste card to capture power. Power is depending on the minority or majority to dominate each other. Gandhi and Nehru thought Hindus to capture power at the cost of egalitarian principals of Theory of Justice (John Rawls) without creating any progressive knowledge. The same way Dr B R Ambedkar had guided his community but with converting to non- Hindu believes. He guided his community people politically but he had failed to guide them intellectually. Therefore, his community people have become intellectually inferiors in the knowledge creation by competing with their fellow Hindus.

If the most persecuted Jewish community of Germany had focused on knowledge creation through which they have attracted entire world to change their social status then the world most persecuted Untouchable or African community of India-Asia/Africa had become manipulators by ignoring the value of knowledge creation. With my personal experience I understood that people who captured knowledge are becoming world leaders in every aspect like the white western Christian society than the people who are interested in lies, unethical practices, dishonest, corruption like Asians and Africans are becoming agents of age old practices of uncivilized thoughts and actions.

With the personal experience I got in Brazil and Australia when I went to study International Graduate Course in History, Heritage, Memory at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil or Master of Human Rights at the University of Sydney in Australia with the merit scholarships everyone from those countries used to say that ‘oh you are a smart student’ unlike your fellow Indians. Here smart student means intellect academically. But very few smart students are the people who read, write, understand and analyze any society or culture or tradition to say people that what is right and wrong or what is good and bad even though people don’t like their words or actions. Their actions or thoughts are progressive and creative unlike people who are going to abroad for earning millions of dolors in the name of education

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Nehru is such kind of people who went to South Africa or London for their studies with their own block money unlike Dr B R Ambedkar. In fact Gandhi was a Son of Chief Minister of his region whereas Nehru was a Son of richest person unlike Ambedkar whose father was an employee of the British Raj. Gandhi’s and Nehru’s richness had paved way for getting political power by using unethical movements unlike the Human Rights of Dr B R Ambedkar. Ambedkar was, in fact, a strong supporter of self-respect, dignity, perhaps no idea about his standpoint on individual identity. He spoke for group identity i.e. identity of Untouchables in India like Gandhi’s battle for Touchable Indians to transform power from egalitarian British to Indian hegemonic communities. Of course British Raj is the main enemy of sub-subaltern sections who established the hegemony of Top of the twice borne communities in the Indian society at the cost of marginalized sections unlike white western Christian missionaries who came to abolish Indian way of uncivilized practices such as practice of Untouchability or infant deaths. There is a conflict of differences of British rulers in India and British missionaries. If British rulers install the hegemony of dominant castes in India then the British missionaries had started educating Brahmin women and lower caste people. So human rights students should pose a question of what is the value of individuality in the context of Asia in general or India in particular when the religious fundamental identities (non-Christian faiths in Asia or Africa) are crushing the individual rights of people.

Let us fight for individual rights or freedom to advance the egalitarian principals of equality, liberty, freedom and fraternity.