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Dr Ambedkar, as a law minister, wanted Sanskrit to be the national language of India.He believed that India 🇮🇳 shall develop as a culturally united nation-state.

NewsBharati    14-Apr-2023 10:41:29 AM
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This article on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. is based on thread by @INSIGHTUK

Hiding the truth and presenting it in the wrong way is an old habit of some historical intellectuals. Just like how they hide some shocking historical facts, our so-called historical intellectuals have also tried to hide some facts about Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.


Ambedkar
 

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was a prominent social reformer, jurist, economist, and political leader in India. He dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of marginalised communities, including Dalits, women, and labourers. He was the principal architect of the Indian Constitution and played a crucial role in shaping modern India's democratic and legal systems.

He was a prolific scholar and a patriot. Honesty & foresightedness was visible in his actions.

In this thread, we'll explore some lesser-known facts they don’t want you to know about.

  • 1. Baba Saheb considered the mahavakyas of the Upanishads the spiritual basis of democracy. In his famous speech to the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal, Dr. Ambedkar made the suggestion that Hindus need not look anywhere outside their scriptures to build a society based on the principles of liberty, fraternity, and equality. They could look into the Upanishads for those values, he said.

Dr. Ambedkar considered the Hindu Civil Code the first step towards a uniform civil code.

The same Dr. Ambedkar who rejected outright the inhuman and outdated aspects of smriti traditions also demonstrated that the same tradition, with all its diversity, could be distilled to create a Hindu law that had prominent space for social democracy and gender justice. 

He saw the Hindu Code Bill (HCB) as instrumental in moulding Hindu society into a unitary one based on the principles of liberty and equality. In a lecture delivered on January 11, 1950, he declared:The present bill is progressive. This is an effort to try to have one civil law for all the citizens under the constitution of India. The law is based on the religious scriptures of the Hindus.

  • Dr Ambedkar, as a law minister, wanted Sanskrit to be the national language of India.He believed that India 🇮🇳 shall develop as a culturally united nation-state.

Despite his belief that English could be kept as the nation’s official language for at least 15 years after independence, Dr5 Bhimrao Ambedkar supported Sanskrit as a national language in the Constituent Assembly. The proposal to make Sanskrit as the national language was moved by the late LK Maitra in the Constituent Assembly, and was supported by Dr. Ambedkar


Ambedkar on sanskrit  
 
Ambedkar recommended making Sanskrit the official language of the Union of India to the Council of National Languages, which was set up as soon as the nation gained independence. Ambedkar opined that there would be no dispute in the country around Sanskrit as the national language.

  • Dr Ambedkar was against taking favour from missionaries for the 'Dalit' causes

He viewed their social reforms are not because of real concern but as a means for proselytisation. He was averse to missionaries meddling in the scheduled communities' affairs
  •  Dr Ambedkar was against giving Indus water to Pakistan

 

 
 
 In his book The Great Divide: Britain-India-Pakistan (1969), he gives a detailed account of how Dr Ambedkar refused Pakistan the Indus water and how Mountbatten intervened on behalf of Pakistan:

At a meeting of ministerial representatives from India and Pakistan on 3rd May (1948), Dr Ambedkar, for India, insisted that no water could be supplied until Pakistan accepted India’s legal claim that all the water belonged to East Punjab, who had the right to do with it as they wished. The chief Pakistan representative, Mr Gulam Mohammed, came to see Lord Mountbatten after the meeting had broken down on this point. The Governor General immediately phoned Pandit Nehru and expressed his disgust that miserable peasants and refugees were being made to suffer when the matter was still under negotiation. Pandit Nehru agreed and undertook to get the conference going again and break the deadlock.

Dr Ambedkar wanted to have a complete exchange of populations between India and Pakistan. Otherwise partition will be an unfinished exercise.
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