FARMERS STRUGGLE AND AMBEDKARISM
Ambedkar 's ideology
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1) He was a staunch Indian Nationalist
He was totally against any separatist movement.
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2- in Sholapur, he advised the oppressed class people that bakthi movement will not solve their problems.
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3) He had great admiration for Sanskrit language and its literature and treatises in science.
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4) He was totally against linguistic chauvinism and regionalism. He wanted every Indian to learn and use Hindi and till all Indians adaopt it, he wanted English to continue.
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5) He was a Socilaist but a democratic socialist. He wanted all industries to be in public sector and extended the concept to agricultural co-operatives also.
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6) He was totally committed to constitution framed by fully democratic elections without any discrimination based on religion, caste, language and race. He insisted on the rule of law.
he wanted clear separation of legislative, judiciary and miltary . He was against the legislature passing laws which affect the fundamental rights of any group. and he tought that the judiciary has power to strike down any law if it is found to go against the directive principles of state oolicy. He gave least importance to the mitary and stipulated that the miltary is meant for defence against exteral agressors and should not be used in internal strife.
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7) He was totally against violent agitaions.He was a firm believer in individual liberty.
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8) He considered that the Scheduled castes need reservation in basic education, higher education, government services, and advocated positive discrimination to uplift the SC people .
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9) He demanded that there must be dual electoral system so that SC people can elect their own choice of leaders.
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10) He thought that Casteism and untouchability are bound up closely with Hindu religion and so wanted the SC people to adopt another religion. But like Savarkar, he wanted that religion to have originted in INDIA, like Jainism,Buddhism and Sikhism.
(Savarkar was not a believer in any religion. He was an agnostic. Ambedkar felt that Religion is necessary. )
He rejected Sikhism as he knew that it too had untouchabilty and was martial.
So he chose Buddhism, as it is the religion of Eastern Asia ( Tibet, Ceylon, Burma, Indo-china, Thailand, parts of Indonesia, Japan and China). The Buddhists in all these countries consider Bihar and Bodh Gaya as a sacred place.
( Note: In SriLanka, there is Untouchability among the Tamils of Jaffna and Tricomali and colombo. It exists in Plantation tamils of central province also but there is no untouchability in Sinhalese areas as they are all following the original and pure Buddhism known as Hinayanam . This branch is followed in Burma also. In SriLanka, the buddhist monks can just stay in the mutts but they have to get their daily food from the public . The mutts do not have any other financial resource!)
Jainism does not exist anywhere except India.
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11) He did not approve of Islam as it believed in violence to spread its doctrine.and also because it's holy places were outside India. For the same reason, he did not approve of SC getting converted to Christianity.
He was against 'extra-territorial loyalty'
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12) He approved and organized trade unions
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13) He was against Stalin's Soviet Union as he believed in democracy as was practised in western countries like USA, England and Western Europe.
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14) He believed in Uniform Civil code, irrespective of religion and wanted the state activities to be secular.
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15) He wanted inter-caste and inter-religion marriages so that casteism , untouchability and religious intolerance can be done away with.
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16) He was for Partition as he believed that Muslims will dominate and intimidate the timid hindus and will stand in the way of India becoming a modern nation.
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17) He disliked communists as they were all STALINISTS.
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18)He had no agreement with either Jinnah or EVR. as both of them were separatists and while Jinnah was a muslim fundamentalist, EVR was materialistic atheist
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19) He was against linguistic reorganization of states of India.
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20) He was not an active proponent of land-reforms ( land-to the tiller) and land redistribution to help the lndless agricultural labour.
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