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The first edition waspublished by the Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, in December1995. This is a 2013 reprint by the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation, Delhi, an autonomousbody under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
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Ambedkar was not allowed to enter a club that the Marathas and Brahmins patronised, said Bansidar Sharma, former head of the Hindi department at M.S. University of Baroda, who has written books on Sayajirao.
Let me start with telling you the answer so that there is no suspense over anything that I am going to write below. No, Babasaheb never joined Congress and was never part of Congress party. Now, you can go ahead and read some other article on our website!
From Congress to BJP/RSS leaders and social media influencers from time to time keep on mentioning that Babasaheb Ambedkar was part of Congress, spreading misinformation and misguiding people. Congress leaders do in an attempt to appropriate the legacy of Babasaheb Ambedkar and partially to take pride that the most genius person of India was once part of their political party.
BJP on the other hand, try to blame Congress and attack for the reason the same reason asking why Dr Ambedkar left Congress. In doing so, BJP leaders and influencers imply that something is wrong with the Congress party hence Dalits should follow BJP.
Babasaheb Ambedkar never joined Congress. He was a part of Congress led government, not Congress political party. There is a difference between these two, becoming a part of the ruling government and joining that ruling party. Quite often one can see in many European countries, ruling party invite leaders from the opposition parties as well to become ministers. Once the ruling party sees that some opposition candidate is worth having in its government to make better decisions or policies or to run government better, it invites that person to join the government but that does not mean the opposition candidate has become part of the ruling political party.
Babasaheb Ambedkar instead had advised Dalits to stay away from Congress and form their own political party. Babasaheb Ambedkar explains all this in his writings on why did he join the Congress government.
Ambedkar was also a nominated member of the Bombay Legislative Council form 1926-34. He founded the Independent Labour Party of India in 1936 after the Government of India Act 1935 introduced responsible government at the provincial level. The party was able to win 15 of the 17 seats it contested in the Bombay Assembly elections of 1937. He then founded the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation in 1942 as a popular political front for the Dalits.
"A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of BR Ambedkar", published by Navayana, claims to chart "the evolution of Ambedkar's thought, its core vision, and its relation to his life and work" by exploring works and speeches by and on him in both English and Marathi.
"This may spur research into the less-explored aspects of Ambedkar's life and work. Hopefully, 'A Part Apart' will also dent some of the India academic establishment's disregard towards his work as an original thinker and scholar," he said.
Apart from exploring Ambedkar's growth as a political thinker and one of the foremost proponents of the Dalit cause, and an ideological opponent of Mahatma Gandhi, "A Part Apart" also looks at his reinterpreting religious texts and history, and his last work, "The Buddha and His Dhamma".
Ambedkar saw Article 370 as an obstacle to the unity of the country and it was against Scheduled Caste. His stand against the imposition of Article 370 was proven true when the Valmiki community who had left Pakistan and took refuge in Jammu and Kashmir did not get any government benefits until this apartheid law was repealed by PM Modi in 2019.
The statue of Ambedkar is part of the Ambedkar International Center (AIC) being built on 13 acres of land in Accokeek city of Maryland. AIC is a US-based civil rights organisation that works to build a fairer, egalitarian society based on the principles and philosophy of Dr BR Ambedkar.
But the rise of Dalit Visibility and Empowerment has led many individuals, organizations, and parties that comprise predominantly oppressor caste people to be uncomfortable and rigorously try to find ways to stop further progress, growth, and assertion of Dalit rights. The oppressor caste people start to look at ways to end the Dalit Movement and hence the vandalism of Dr. Ambedkar's sculptures is rampant in our country.
This is an excerpt from A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar by Ashok Gopal, published by Navayana Publishing, 2023. Republished here with permission from the publisher.
Baba Saheb Ambedkar Yatra as part of Bharat Gaurav Tourist service was flagged off by Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Virendra Kumar along with Tourism and Culture Minister, G Kishan Reddy, on the auspicious day of Ambedkar Jayanti for eight days' journey.
The proposed seven nights and eight days Bharat Gaurav Tourist train after departure from Delhi, on its first halt will arrive at Dr Ambedkar Nagar (Mhow) in Madhya Pradesh, the birthplace of Baba Saheb (Bhim Janam Bhoomi).
The train then moves to Nagpur railway station where tourists proceed to visit Deekshabhoomi, a consecrated monument of Navayana Buddhism. The train departs from Nagpur for Sanchi. The sightseeing of Sanchi includes visits to the eponymous stupa and other Buddhist sites.
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For his part, Ambedkar initially sought equality within the Hindu tradition, hoping to gain a place of religious and social equality with caste Hindus. For more than a decade, he struggled to overcome untouchability while staying within the Hindu fold. Finding Hinduism too flawed to be a force for justice and the Hindu orthodoxy too resistant to change, he gave up on Hinduism. Reflecting on his more than two decades of activism, he said:
Back in India, Gandhi's anti-untouchability stance awakened in childhood and nurtured in South Africa entered a new phase, a public phase, at Satyagraha Ashram, founded by the Mahatma in May 1915 in Kochrab village near Ahmedabad. The ashram was the linchpin of Gandhi's philosophy of action; it was a laboratory where visions of a just society were conceived and where women and men trained to carry forward Gandhi's political and social agenda. It was also a setting where methods to transform society were worked out. At the heart of the ashram was its discipline of vows and the elimination of untouchability was one of the vows all members of the ashram took.19 Considering that Gandhi had already positioned himself in opposition to untouchability, it was only to be expected that its eradication would become one of Satyagraha Ashram's major activities.20 "Untouchability had not only no place in the Ashram, but its eradication from Hindu society was one of our principal objectives," Gandhi stated.21 It was in the ashram setting that Gandhi's position on untouchability ceased to be purely personal and private; his stand against the practice of untouchability became part of the public debate. And it took the Mahatma on a collision course with orthodox Hindus.
All of humanity for Gandhi was one large family without distinction of race, religion, or nationality. Untouchability stood in opposition, to his notion of divinely gathered family and community. When an untouchable family sought its membership of the Satyagraha Ashram, Gandhi welcomed them. Several members of the ashram, including Kasturba and Maganlal Gandhi, the Mahatma's chief lieutenant, and his wife, Santok, objected to the presence of the untouchable family in the ashram; they even threatened to leave. Mrs. Gandhi "could leave me and we should part good friends," the Mahatma wrote to V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, his "revered friend."22 Kasturba changed her mind and stayed, but Maganlal and Santok left only to return later.23 Gandhi's decision "created a flutter amongst the friends [in Ahmedabad] who had been helping the Ashram."24 Ashram funds dried up and there was talk of a social boycott of the ashram. Gandhi held his ground and refused to remove the untouchable family from the ashram. Just then help came from an anonymous benefactor. The ashram survived with the untouchable family staying on. Gandhi, it should be noted, was ready, to close down the ashram and move to an untouchable settlement.25
Gandhi addressed the application of Satyagraha in caste reform more than once, but he never led a Satyagraha campaign over the question of untouchability.26 Nor did he support Ambedkar in the Satyagraha campaigns the Dalit leader led. The Mahatma's lack of support for Ambedkar's Satyagraha initiatives "increased the distrust on the part of Ambedkar and his followers for the Congress and Gandhi."27 Gandhi's acts of personal witness against the practice of untouchability, however, continued. In 1918, at the second Depressed Classes Mission Conference, popularly known as the untouchables' conference, Gandhi read out the resolution that called for political rights for the untouchables. Upon realizing that there were no untouchables present at the conference, he declined to move such a resolution. The conference had no right to act on behalf of the untouchables, Gandhi declared, and he added: "He who demands swaraj must give swaraj to others. It is a principle in law that he who seeks justice should render it to others."28 His emphasis on personal witness remained integral to his overall program of social reform in general and the removal of untouchability in particular.
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