Dr Br Ambedkar Caste Analysis

Annihilation of Caste by Dr. BR Ambedkar
Course Work Assignment.
Sandeep Dash
BASS 1
Roll no. 041
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur.

To Sir Sreedhar Modugu, History professor.
Introduction
Annihilation of caste as I understand is the maiden address as proposed to be spoken by Dr. BR Ambedkar, the nominated President of Jat- Pat- Todak Mandal- A reformist body against social evils existing in independence era of India.
Address and backdrop
Dr. BR Ambedkar was an Indian politician, reformist and crusader against social evils existing in India. Born to a dalit family, Dr. BR Ambedkar often spoke in divergence to the then prevailing caste system in India and its irrelevance in a modern society. As a leader Dr. BR Ambedkar can be understood
It is the disguise of “development”. This development lust has trumped even the tricolour for it says “So what if the world’s oil and water is rapidly depleting? So what if there is pollution, global warming and the threat of tsunami and nuclear disaster? Why should we protect India’s air, water, forests, land and ore from the multinationals who wish to grab it?”
They are ready to sell our sovereignty for the short-term gain of a few, as long as they are allowed to make a hologram of the national flag. They then proceed to promote our most primitive, racist and exploitative cultural and economic traditions while making suitable noises about modernity and development.
To his credit, Father Mascerenhas is not a coward. He did not tell Sheetal Sathe not to perform today, but merely warned us of the threat that had been issued against the Malhar festival. Sheetal Sathe and the KKMDC do not wish to jeopardize this festival. But we wish to put on record that we will never be silenced. And we want the public to know who exactly has issued this particular threat. The threat has been issued by the Akhil Bharati Vidyarthi Parishad (APVP) the youth wing of a political party that came to power by telling the people of India that it no longer stands for the divisive, communal and casteist politics that it had been associated with in the past.
But the truth is that we still are slaves of socio-religious evils. Make no mistake to think that there is any other thing as gross as religious intolerance and caste based distinction. We couldn’t defend our Swaraj. But today there is only one solution to this problem.
“Whether you accept the theory of the great man as the maker of history or whether you do not, this much you will have to concede: that in every country the intellectual class is the most influential class, if not the governing class. The intellectual class is the class which can foresee, it is the class which can advise and give the lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life of intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative, and follows the
Intellectual class.”
“There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destiny of a country depends upon its intellectual class. If the Intellectual class is honest, independent, and disinterested, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis