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| Biographies of Great Indians & Hindus |
Dr.B.R.AMBEDKAR |
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| Efforts to
End InjusticeThere was no cast system during the
Vedic age. There was no ‘un-touchability’. When and how did this system creep
into the Hindu society? We do not know for certain.
Did no one try to wipe out this injustice? Buddha admitted may ‘untouchables’ to his religion. Ramanujacharya, Basaveshwara, Chakradhara,Ramananda,Kabir, Chaitanya, Ekanath, Tukaram, Raja Rammohan Roy and other great men preached that no one is high and no one is low among God’s children. Mahatma Phooley and his wife dedicated their lives to the education of the ‘untouchables.’ Sayyaji Rao Gaekwad, the Maharaja of Baroda, established a school for the ‘untouchables’ as earty as in 1883. In this way many thoughtful leaders of the Hindu Society have been trying for hundreds of years to wipe out ‘Untouchability’. Both before and after India became free, many great man have sacrificed their lives for the truth and the principles they believed in. Ambedkar was one of them. Ideas of high and low had crept into the Hindu Society; Ambedkar sufferedbecause of this; he also fought hard against such differences; later he became the first Las Minister in free India. The credit for making a law and creating the necessary atmosphere to wipe out ‘Untouchability’ goes to Ambedkar. |
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