The political, social and philosophical conflict between generation’s profound intellectualist, Mr. M.K Gandhi and Dr Ambedkar has a long tradition and still by no means ended. Ambedkar, the untouchable was heir to an anti-caste tradition dated back to Buddhism and Gandhi, a vaishya born into Gujarati Bania family was latest to the privileged caste Hindu reformism dated back to the works of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Both Gandhi and Ambedkar represented separate interest groups and to quote Arundhati Roy, “their battle unfolded in the heart of India’s national movement (Roy, 2014).
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aditya nayak
6/18/2014 04:54:36 am
well reasearched article.. Loved it!
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Sudhakar Sardar
2/19/2016 02:37:13 am
Ambedkar felt for whole India, Gandhi was for the bourgeois
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Tassaduq
3/12/2018 08:34:29 am
Interview in 1995?
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