Ambedkar At 125: The Best Swarajya Pieces

1. Ambedkar: The Forgotten Free Market Economist

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.

2. 10 Reasons Why Ambedkar Would Not Get Along Very Well With ‘Periyar’

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: 

3. Ambedkar Batted For Factories And Not Romanticised Farms

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. 

4. Ambedkar, Democracy, Upanishads

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

5. The 2 ‘S’ Words Ambedkar Did Not Want In The Constitution

. . . which were “secularism” and “socialism”. Surprised? Read the piece to know why.