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Dr.B.R.

Ambedkhars thought on Indian National Spirit


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TAIDALA VASANTHA RAO ,RESEARCH SCHOLOR , ANU vasantharao.taidala@gmail.com

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BANDLAMUDI.KALAPNA ,RESEARCH SCHOLOR, ANU kalpana.bandlanudi2gmail.com

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DR K.PRIYADARSINI kpriyadarsini@gmail.com

Abstract:
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is one of the most eminent intellectual figures of modern India. He appeared
on the Indian socio-political scene in early 1920s and remained in the forefront of all social,
economic, political and religious efforts for upliftment of the lowest stratum of the Indian society
known as untouchables, women and other backward classes. He was a great scholar who made
outstanding contributions as an economist, sociologist, legal luminary, educationist, journalist, and
parliamentarian and above all, as a social reformer and champion of human rights. We can see his
vastness of his vision in the preamble to the Constitution of India. It may be considered as the
soul of Constitution. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar emerged as a powerful jurist, political leader, Buddhist
activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar,
editor, revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He was the chief architect of the
Indian Constitution. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded the Bharatratna, Indias
highest civilian award, in 1990. This paper tries to reflect the thoughts of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on
national spirit of India. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is a great man who strived and dreamed for a better
India where there is equality of people and thoughts. He always focused on the national cause in
his speeches and actions. Although he is very well known fighting for equal rights of dalits, his
main concentration was on the broad perspective of India and her development. He always
believed that people in India can develop the country through a spirit of unity in diversity. So, in
this paper these thoughts of the great man are elaborated as needed and understood. The thoughts
of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar are not confined to the downtrodden people he has a great perception and
found solutions to many illness that the country is bearing at that time which are still relevant
today here.

INTRODUCTION OF THE GREAT MAN:


Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 6 December 1956), prominently known as
Babasaheb, was an Indian legal scholar, market analyst, lawmaker and social reformer who
enlivened the Modern Buddhist Movement and battled against social oppression Untouchables
(Dalits), while additionally supporting the privileges of ladies and work. He was Independent
India's first law pastor and the vital engineer of the Constitution of India.

Ambedkar was a productive understudy, procuring a law degree and different doctorates from
Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and picked up notoriety for being a
researcher for his examination in law, financial matters and political science. In his initial vocation
he was a financial expert, teacher, and legal advisor. His later life was set apart by his political
exercises; he got to be included in crusading and arrangements for India's autonomy, distributed
diaries supporting political rights and social flexibility for Dalits, and contributing essentially to
the foundation of the condition of India. In 1956 he changed over to Buddhism, starting mass
transformations of Dalits.
In 1990, the Bharat Ratna, India's most astounding non military personnel honor, was after death
gave upon Ambedkar. Ambedkar's legacy incorporates various dedications and delineations in pop
culture.

EFFECT OF DR.AMBEDKHARS LEGACY ON INDIA:


Ambedkar's legacy as a socio-political reformer, deeply affected present day India. In postIndependence India, his socio-political believed is regarded over the political range. His drives
have affected different circles of life and changed the way India today takes a gander at financial
strategies, instruction and governmental policy regarding minorities in society through financial
and legitimate impetuses. His notoriety for being a researcher prompted his arrangement as free
India's first law priest, and administrator of the advisory group for drafting the constitution. He
enthusiastically had confidence in individual opportunity and scrutinized rank society. His
allegations of Hinduism just like the establishment of the position framework made him dubious
and disliked among Hindus. His transformation to Buddhism started a restoration in enthusiasm for
Buddhist reasoning in India and abroad. Numerous open organizations are named in his honor, and
the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur, also called Sonegaon Airport. Dr. B.
R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar is likewise named in his honor. A
substantial authority representation of Ambedkar is in plain view in the Indian Parliament building.
Ambedkar was voted the "Best Indian" in 2012 by a survey composed by History TV18 and CNN
IBN. Almost 20 million votes were thrown, making him the most prominent Indian figure
subsequent to the dispatch of the activity. Because of his part in financial matters, Narendra
Jadhav, a prominent Indian business analyst, has said that Ambedkar was "the most astounding
instructed Indian market analyst of all times." Amartya Sen, said that Ambedkar is "father of my
financial aspects", and "he was profoundly disputable figure in his nation of origin, however it was
not the truth. His commitment in the field of financial matters is superb and will be recalled until
the end of time." Osho, a profound instructor, commented "I have seen individuals who are
conceived in the least class of Hindu law, the sudras, the untouchables, so clever: when India got to
be autonomous, the man who made the constitution of India, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, was a
sudra. There was no equivalent to his knowledge to the extent law is concerned he was a worldwell known power." President Obama tended to the Indian parliament in 2010, and alluded to Dalit

pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar as the immense and respected Human Rights champion and principle
creator of India's constitution.
Ambedkar's political reasoning has offered ascend to an extensive number of political gatherings,
productions and laborers' unions that stay dynamic crosswise over India, particularly in
Maharashtra. His advancement of Buddhism has restored enthusiasm for Buddhist theory among
segments of populace in India. Mass transformation services have been sorted out by human rights
activists in cutting edge times, imitating Ambedkar's Nagpur function of 1956.some Indian
Buddhists view him as a Bodhisattva, in spite of the fact that he never asserted it himself. Outside
India, amid the late 1990s, some Hungarian Romani individuals drew parallels between their own
particular circumstance and that of the oppressed individuals in India. Enlivened by Ambedkar,
they began to change over to Buddhism.

NATIONAL SPIRIT DR. B.R AMBEDKARS PERSPECTIVE:


Nationalism is presumably the best political instrument in political assembly against expansionism.
Patriotism is a fundamental power ever. It is man-made, and in this manner it is firmly related with
man's life, pride, action and prosperity. In the perspectives of Dr.Ambedkar, 'patriotism is the
standard of self-determination communicates the craving of an individuals united by regular
beliefs and basic purposes to choose, without outside impulse; its political status whether
autonomy, association, or union with other individuals of the world'. He facilitate communicated
that patriotism is corporate sentiments of unity which makes the individuals who are accused of it
feel that they are friends and relatives. Dr.Ambedkar sees patriotism is to get its ideal amicability
in the acknowledgment of social fellowship of men, regardless of position, shading and doctrine.
The patriot development in India was a long drawn fight against the British Colonialism to win
flexibility. At the point when Dr.Ambedkar went ahead the scene in 1924, the opportunity
development was going full bore. While truly Dr.Ambedkar did not take an interest in the standard
national development under the administration of Gandhi and Congress as they never investigated
the brutal states of the Shudras and the Untouchables. It doesn't imply that he was not a patriot or a
flexibility fighter.3 As Mahatma Gandhi provided for the patriot development a mass measurement
and Jawaharlal Nehru gave it the social and monetary measurement so Dr.Ambedkar gave it a
socio-vote based objective. Really, he was not restricted to political opportunity for India. He felt
that the counter pioneer Indian patriotism was not adequately comprehensive. That is the reason he
considered social opportunity alongside political flexibility of the nation. He made careful
arrangements to accentuate that to make opportunity significant, flexibility of the considerable
number of individuals in the country must be guaranteed. To him, the political flexibility from
British imperialism would stay deficient, unless it is trailed by complete destruction of sufferings
and hardship of the Depressed Classes. He contended one must recognize the opportunity of a
nation and the flexibility of the general population in the nation. In this manner, his principle
anxiety was on the opportunity of the general population. Without flexibility, patriotism turn into a
method for interior servitude, constrained work and composed oppression for poor people and

servile classes. He understood that he would need to battle firstly with the British expansionism
and afterward with the standing Hindus. Therefore, he pushed upon the social and monetary
autonomy with the political opportunity for the national solidarity and honesty.
Dr.Ambedkar was patriot and loyalist to the center. When he was an understudy, he had
reprimanded the British financial strategy. He considered the British principle in charge of ignoring
the welfare of the large number of individuals in India. In the First Round Table Conference on
twentieth November, 1930, he talked for India's flexibility and welfare. Talking in the Plenary
Session of the Conference he requested that the British government quit India and let Indian
individuals be distant from everyone else to frame a decent legislature of freedom. Presenting the
subject Ambedkar said "the bureaucratic type of government ought to be supplanted by an
administration which will be a legislature of the general population and for the general population.
Along these lines, he contends: We should have a legislature in which the men in force will give
their unified dependability to the best enthusiasm of the nation. We should have a legislature in
which men in force, knowing where acquiescence will end and resistance will start, won't be
reluctant to correct the social and financial code of life which the manages of equity and
practicality so critically call for. This part, the British government will never have the capacity to
play. It is just an administration which is of the general population, for the general population and
by the general population that will make this possible.In that Round Table Conference, Mahatma
Gandhi had requested Provincial Autonomy furthermore supported the Princely expresses that
mean Princes would designate their delegates. Over the issue Ambedkar was a solitary individual
from the Round Table Conference who energetically restricted the proposition from the earliest
starting point. He made it clear that India would be a popularity based nation and representation
ought to be made by decisions. Those races ought to be immediate election.
His confidence in a definitive solidarity of India was being shown by him in his lady discourse in
the Constituent Assembly on 17 December 1946, where he decidedly said, "Whatever faithfulness
emerges out of our religion, out of our way of life or out of our dialect, I need all individuals to be
Indians to start with, Indians last only Indians" Dr.Ambedkar constantly worked hard to find the
durable elements helpful for the making of a coordinated society in view of a related method of
life. His discourse before the Constituent Assembly as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of
the Constitution is a skillful embrace of the reason for an incorporated society furthermore of
national coordination. He focused on the need of: (a) Uniform laws and a solitary and incorporated
Judiciary, (b) a Central Administrative Service, (c) The making of an Indian Federation through the
Constitution in view of the estimations of secularism. However, he argues for a solid united India
through federalism. Fundamentally, the Constitution certainly made an elected nation in the nation
yet the procurements were likewise made to make such a solid focal government, to the point that
the marking of such a framework as an alliance would have seemed dishonorable.
Dr. Ambedkar was the main pioneer who was included in the law-production process in provincial
India beginning from January 1919 to 1946. To outline a Swaraj Constitution the Congress party
passed different resolutions in its different reports. The reports were-'The Motilal Nehru Report',

'Sapru Report' and 'the Government of India Acts 1935',and it was at long last chosen that agents of
every political party will be chosen to constitute the Constituent Assembly to conclude the
Constitution. Dr. Ambedkar challenged the race with his own particular political gathering, "The
All India Scheduled Caste Federation" however he neglected to choose himself. However stand out
of his gathering part got to the Provincial Assembly chose from the Bengal Constituency, was
Jogendra Nath Mandal. In any case, J.N Mandal relinquished his seat in the Constituent Assembly
and got Ambedkar's selection paper marked, as he understood that Ambedkar would be the perfect
individual for the post. He manufactured organization together with the Muslim association and
enlisted the individuals to get Ambedkar chose to the Constituent Assembly from Bengal. Sadly,
Bengal's segment in 1947 debilitated Ambedkar's participation of the Constituent Assembly.
Presently discovering him key, the congress party, which had contradicted like the devil his
entrance in the constituent Assembly a couple of months prior, approached to support his
candidature from Bombay, taking after the acquiescence of M.R Jayakar. As needs be, he was rechosen to the Constituent Assembly. From that point, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru welcomed
him to join his bureau in August 1947. In this manner he turned into the main Law Minister of the
Independent India. On 29th August, the Constituent Assembly of India consistently chose him as
the Chairman of the Drafting Committee which was appointed the undertaking of giving last shape
to the constitution. There were six different individuals from the Drafting Committee however the
greater part of the individuals were not taking the necessary steps for one reason or other and,
hence, whole weight of drafting and guiding the Draft Constitution through the stormy level
headed discussions in the Constituent Assembly fell on the shoulders of Dr.Ambedkar.
Dr.Ambedkar assumed two-fold part in making of Constitution of India, i.e., as a champion of the
untouchables on one hand and as an established master on the other. He was a surely understood
Constitutionalist and a man with rich political experience. In spite of the fact that Dr. Ambedkar
was not allowed to compose the constitution as indicated by his political and sacred logic, yet he
did his most extreme to join into the constitution of free India such procurements as would build
up another strong request in view of the elevated standards of political, monetary and social equity
for the whole gang.
The principle goal of the Constitution was to interface political majority rules system with
financial and social popular government. Dr.Ambedkar himself put it as takes after: "Our item in
faming the Constitution is truly two-fold:
(1) To set out the type of political majority rule government, and
(2) To set out that our optimal is financial vote based system
Furthermore recommend that each administration whatever is in force should endeavor to achieve
monetary vote based system. The Directive Principles have an extraordinary worth; for they lay
wear that our optimal is financial majority rules system". Be that as it may, the financial majority
rule government which was comprehensive in nature fell into obscurity not long after freedom.
Ambedkar understood the issue and sounded grave cautioning "On the 26th January 1950, we are

going to go into an existence of inconsistencies. In governmental issues we will have


correspondence and in social and financial life we will have imbalance. In governmental issues we
will perceive the guideline of small time one vote and one vote one quality. In our social and
financial life, we might, by reason of our social structure, keep on precluding the rule from
claiming limited one quality. We should evacuate this disagreement at the most punctual
conceivable or else the individuals who experience the ill effects of imbalance will explode the
structure of political democracy".
CONCLUSION:
In entirety, Dr.Ambedkar, the manufacturer of advanced India, contributed hugely towards country
building and remaking of society from numerous points of view. He adored his nation and the
general population and worked genuinely and dedicatedly for their freedom, advancement and
improvement.. He ought to be recalled not just as an extraordinary social reformer, a nationalist, an
energetic champion of social equity and opportunity yet substantially more as an incredible
established producer that the country could deliver. Truly, our Constitution has stood the test of
time and made India a solid, steady and feasible vote based nation on the planet.
"We are Indians, firstly and lastly." B.R Ambedkar
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