Right Word | How Ambedkar Examined Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim Unity, And Congress Politics |
Right Word | How Ambedkar Examined Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim Unity, And Congress Politics
Dr BR Ambedkar approached these issues less as a politician and more as a rigorous thinker committed to the truth, however inconvenient
On the 135th birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, it will be appropriate to pay tribute to his intellectual honesty and revisit his engagement with some of the most difficult and contentious questions of his time – particularly those concerning Muslims, Hindu-Muslim unity, and the political conduct of the Indian National Congress.
Ambedkar approached these issues less as a politician and more as a rigorous thinker committed to the truth, however inconvenient.
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ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE
Ambedkar was highly critical of the stand that the Congress took during the Second Round Table Conference in December 1931, following which the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award on August 16, 1932.
According to Ambedkar: “At the Round Table Conference, the Muslims presented their list of safeguards, which were formulated in the well-known fourteen points. The Hindu representatives at the Round Table Conference would not consent to them. There was an impasse. The British Government intervened and gave what is known as ‘the Communal decision’. By that decision, the Muslims got all their fourteen points. There was much bitterness amongst the Hindus against the Communal Award. But,........