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BR Ambedkar: The unknown details of how he piloted Indian constitution
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| Contributor | Juan Croniqueur |
| Last Edited | Juan Croniqueur Apr 10, 2023 07:13pm |
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| Author | Soutik Biswas |
| News Date | Monday, April 10, 2023 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | At the end of the final reading of India's constitution on 25 November 1949, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen and the undisputed leader of the country's Dalits (formerly called 'Untouchables'), delivered a typically prescient speech.
"On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality, and in social and economic life, we will have inequality," Ambedkar said.
With the constitution coming into force, India declared itself as a sovereign, democratic and republic state that day. In his speech, Ambedkar was possibly alluding to the contradictions between a young republic and an old civilisation. Democracy, he had said separately, was only a "top-dressing on Indian soil" which was "essentially undemocratic", and the village was a "sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism". |
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