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describe briefly Ram mohan ohar Lohia veiws on inequillity?​

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on Caste Inequality!

Ram Manohar Lohia was a Gandhian, freedom fighter and known for his anti-caste mobilisation through his Socialist Party. Lohia recognised that caste, more than class, was the huge obstacle to India’s progress. It was Lohia’s thesis that India had suffered reverses throughout her history because people had viewed themselves as members of a caste rather than citizens of a country.

The country was deprived of fresh ideas, because of the narrowness and stultifications of thought at the top, which comprised mainly of the upper castes. Brahmins and Baniyas, with tight compartmentalisation even there.

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A proponent of affirmative action, Lohia urged the upper castes ‘to voluntarily serve as the soil for lower castes to flourish and grow’, so that the country would profit from a broader spectrum of talent and ideas. In his own party, the Samyukta (United) Socialist Party, Lohia promoted lower caste candidates both by giving electoral tickets and high party positions.

Though he talked about caste incessantly, he was not a, casteist, his aim was to make sure people voted for the Socialist party candidate, no matter what his or her caste. His point was that in order to make the country strong, everyone needed to have a stake in it. To eliminate caste, his aphoristic prescription was, ‘Roti and Beti’, that is, people would have to break caste barriers to eat together (Roti) and be willing to give their girls in marriage to boys from other castes (Beti).

Propounding the ‘Principle of Equal Irrelevance’, he rejected both Marxism and Capitalism, which were often presented as the only alternatives for third world nations. Aside from the procedural revolution of non-violent civil disobedience, bridging the rich-poor divide, the elimination of caste and the revolution against incursions of the big- machine, other revolutions in Lohia’s list included tackling Man-Woman inequality, banishing inequality based on colour, and that of preserving individual privacy against encroachment of the collective.

Lohia believed that a-party grew by taking up causes. Lohia wanted to abolish private schools and establish upgraded municipal (government) schools, which would give equal academic opportunity to students of all castes.

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This, he hoped would help eradicate the divisions created by the caste system. Lohia set up a plan to decentralise the government’s power so that the public would have more power in Indian politics. He also formed Hind Kisan Panchayat to resolve farmer’s everyday problems.

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