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Chapter 10 of Ranade, Gandhi, Jinnah
Pagination in square brackets corresponds to: B. R. Ambedkar, Ranade Gandhi & Jinnah: Address Delivered on the 101st Birthday Celebration of Mahadev Govind Ranade Held on the 18th January 1943 in the Gokhale Memorial Hall, Poona (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1943) The same text is reprinted as Part 3 of Volume 1 of Babasaheb Ambedkar:…
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Chapter 9 of Ranade, Gandhi, Jinnah
Pagination in square brackets corresponds to: B. R. Ambedkar, Ranade Gandhi & Jinnah: Address Delivered on the 101st Birthday Celebration of Mahadev Govind Ranade Held on the 18th January 1943 in the Gokhale Memorial Hall, Poona (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1943) The same text is reprinted as Part 3 of Volume 1 of Babasaheb Ambedkar:…
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Chapter 8 of Ranade, Gandhi, Jinnah
Pagination in square brackets corresponds to: B. R. Ambedkar, Ranade Gandhi & Jinnah: Address Delivered on the 101st Birthday Celebration of Mahadev Govind Ranade Held on the 18th January 1943 in the Gokhale Memorial Hall, Poona (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1943) The same text is reprinted as Part 3 of Volume 1 of Babasaheb Ambedkar:…
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Chapter 6 of Ranade, Gandhi, & Jinnah
Pagination in square brackets corresponds to:B. R. Ambedkar, Ranade Gandhi & Jinnah: Address Delivered on the 101st Birthday Celebration of Mahadev Govind Ranade Held on the 18th January 1943 in the Gokhale Memorial Hall, Poona (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1943) The same text is reprinted as Part 3 of Volume 1 of Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings…
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Good-government versus self-government
What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables (1946, 2nd ed), pp. 238–40. It was said by Campbell Bannerman in the course of a debate in the House of Commons on Ireland, that self-government is better than good government. The statement had become so popular in India that it had become more than a…
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Social reform versus political reform
Annihilation of Caste (1945, 3rd edition), pp. 3–5. The path of social reform like the path to heaven, at any rate in India, is strewn with many difficulties. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics. The critics fall into two distinct classes. One class consists of political reformers and the other of…
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Chapter 5 of Ranade, Gandhi, Jinnah
Pagination in square brackets corresponds to:B. R. Ambedkar, Ranade Gandhi & Jinnah: Address Delivered on the 101st Birthday Celebration of Mahadev Govind Ranade Held on the 18th January 1943 in the Gokhale Memorial Hall, Poona (Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1943) The same text is reprinted as Part 3 of Volume 1 of Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings…
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Acquisitive instinct
Ranade, Gandhi, Jinnah (1943), p. 26. Where can you find a merchant with nothing but the acquisitive instinct tofollow who will not descend to the level of the brute ? Thoughts on Pakistan (1941), pp. 117–18/Pakistan or the Partition of India (1946), p. 110. It is they [the high caste Hindus] who guide the Hindu…
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Brahmins as supermen
Ranade, Gandhi, Jinnah (1943), pp. 24–25. It [Hindu religion] is Nietzschean in its form and essence. Long before Nietzsche was born Manu had proclaimed the gospel which Nietzsche sought to preach. It is a religion which is not intended to establish liberty, equality and fraternity. It is a gospel which proclaims the worship of the…
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From Catur(varna) to Caste
The Triumph of Brahmanism, BAWS 3, pp. 275, 285–86 The deeds or misdeeds of this triumphant Brahmanism may be catalogued under seven heads. …(3) It converted the Varna into caste. … As I said Manu’s ways are silent and subterranean and we cannot give the detailed and chronological history of this conversion of Varna into…