Ambedkar At 125: The Best Swarajya Pieces
A collection of the best pieces on Ambedkar published in Swarajya
How many people today know that Ambedkar was a trained economist of profound and original ideas? He argued in favour of free enterprise and right to property and was against the idea of central authority controlling the whole of economy. Read more in this vastly illuminative piece.
To name a group “Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle” is akin to naming a group “Nehru Jinnah Study Centre”. The politics of Ambedkar and Periyar remain so mutually incompatible. Read more in this piece:
Not only was Ambedkar in favour of property rights, he was also a champion of urbanisation. There is enough material in his Constituent Assembly Debates interventions to conclude that Ambedkar did not see the a bright future for India if India saw itself as continuing to exist in villages.
Even at a time when Western thought (Marxism included) reigned supreme, why did Ambedkar choose to find resolutions to India’s social conflicts within the framework of Indic thought? Aravindan Neelakandan explores
. . . which were “secularism” and “socialism”. Surprised? Read the piece to know why.