Elaborate on Dr. Ambedkar's views as non-brahmin perspective on Indian society.
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What do I think about Dr. Ambedkar?
I think he was a great man and a patriot.
He vehemently opposed putting Article 370 in the Indian Constitution and the granting of special status to Jammu & Kashmir. He did not even participate in the discussion on Article 370. He did not draft it.
Dr. Ambedkar was alarmed when Muslim leaders like Maulana Shaukat Ali declared that Indian Muslims considered foreign Muslims to be closer to them than Indian non-Muslims. Ambedkar asked that if some Muslim country declared war on India tomorrow, from whose side would Muslims in the army fight? The creation of Pakistan (or the non-creation rather) was a serious security issue. Pakistan should be created immediately.
These two points prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that Ambedkar was a patriot.
However, he was not, I believe, a dharmaguru. He had drafted a sane constitution and put that into force; he should have waited to see its effects rather than simply renouncing Hinduism, and creating a new, unheard of atheist-type religion called neo-Buddhism. I'm sorry to say, but the principles of neo-Buddhism are entirely anti-Hindu, and they are not Buddhist at all. Additionally, his followers often hang a photo of Ambedkar right next to photos of the same Hindu Gods he denounced.