Why Ambedkar had to reject the Gandhian model
By churumuri
A new edition of The Flaming Feet, a collection of essays on and
around B.R. Ambedkar by the late Bangalore University professor D.R.
Nagaraj—"the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's
non-English-speaking world"—has just been published by Permanent
Black.
Edited and introduced by his former student Prithvi Datta Chandra
Shobhi, a Mysorean who is on the faculty of the department of
humanities at San Francisco State University, the book has been hailed
by the historian Ramachandra Guha as the most important work of
non-fiction in 2010.
A Nagaraj nugget, quoted in The Telegraph, Calcutta:
"Babasaheb [Ambedkar] had no option but to reject the Gandhian
model. He had realized that this model had successfully transformed
Harijans as objects in a ritual of self-purification, with the ritual
being performed by those who had larger heroic notions of their
individual selves.
"In the theatre of history, in a play with such a script, the
untouchables would never become heroes in their own right, they were
just mirrors for a hero to look at his own existentialist anger and
despair, or maybe even glory."
Read the full article: Contending visions:
http://telegraphindia.com/1110101/jsp/opinion/story_13360497.jsp
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