Ambedkar
was a learned scholar, distinguished educationist, masterly statesman, powerful
debater, daring liberator, authoritative constitutionalist, able administrator,
famous defender of the revolutionary social reformation movement and a fearless
champion of the downtrodden masses. Culture, wisdom, wit, humanism, instinct of
reason, spirit of rationalism, reasonable ruthlessness for inequality, contempt
for injustice and superstitions were harmoniously blended in right proportions.
He was a versatile genius. Gandhiji remarked that he was fierce and fearless.
He borrowed evidence from the scriptures to show that discrimination had been
made part of religion to facilitate exploitation of bulk of the people by those
who had managed to place themselves at the highest rung of the social ladder.
He subordinated the national struggle for independence and gave priority to the
social emancipation of the untouchables. Gandhiji stressed that swaraj would be
unattainable without the removal of untouchability. The nationalist movement
was influenced by the above teachings of Gandhiji. Ambedkar united the
untouchables, raised them to the level of human beings and put them on the
social and political map of India. Because of his leadership the bonds between
elite and masses have grown and an active educated middle class has been
created which is to a great extent absorbed in government service. He realised
that the political enemy of the untouchables in a democracy where the majority
ruled, was not the Brahmin, (Though he was against Brahminism), but the
dominant agricultural caste. He gave insistence on rights and privileges, to
abolish Mahar Watan, and there by tried to break feudal bonds.
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