Difference between gndhian and ambedkar philosophy
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He considered Gandhi's position on Varna and Caste an ambivalent and far from the reality. He found Gandhi's view as textual, Gandhi used to say that Varnas are the division of Labour, functional specialization which is a feature of any modern society.
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Dr. Ambedkar questioned Gandhi’s intentions and commitment to abolish untouchability. He considered Gandhi’s position on Varna and Caste an ambivalent and far from the reality. He found Gandhi’s view as textual, Gandhi used to say that Varnas are the division of Labour, functional specialization which is a feature of any modern society. Dr. Ambedkar held that varna is textual and caste is contextual. In practice we don’t have varna system, we have a caste system and Gandhi himself doesn’t follow his Varna Dharma. Caste system is not a division of Labour but divison of laborers. Dr. Ambedkar was against the word “Harijan”, because it distorts the reality. Ambedkar held that communities should be held as “Dalit” means the most depressed section of the society. Gandhi didn’t support Ambedkar’s Mahad Satyagraha. Gandhi even held that Satyagrah for the time being to be used only against t foreign rule. According to Dr. Ambedkar, Gandhi had no real commitment because Gandhi never kept any fast to end untouchability, But Gandhi kept fast unto death for separate electorates for Dalits. Having spent his life overcoming caste based discrimination, Dr. Ambedkar had come to the conclusion that the only way Dalits could improve their lives is if they had the exclusive right to vote for their leaders, that a portion or reserved section of all elected positions were only for Dalits and only Dalits could vote for these reserved positions. Gandhi was determined to prevent this and went on hunger strike to change this article in the draft constitution. After many communal riots, where tens of thousands of Dalits were slaughtered, and with a leap in such violence predicted if Gandhi died, Dr. Ambedkar agreed, with Gandhi on his death bed, to give up the Dalits right to exclusively elect their own leaders and Gandhi ended his hunger strike .Later, on his own death bed, Dr. Ambedkar would say this was the biggest mistake in his life, that if he had to do it all over again, he would have refused to give up Dalit only representation, even if it meant Gandhi's death.