B. R. Ambedkar Quotes on Knowledge
B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), the Indian jurist, anti-caste reformer, and principal architect of the Indian Constitution, gave twentieth-century Indian thought its most rigorous philosophical critique of the Hindu social order in Annihilation of Caste (1936) and the long historical-philosophical works on the Buddha and on caste origins. The framework treats caste not as a contingent social abuse correctable within the received Hindu epistemology but as a structural feature of the inherited knowledge-order — encoded in the scriptures, in the law-books, and in the ritual life — whose dismantling requires the corresponding reconstruction of the cognitive frame within which Indian society had operated. Ambedkar's late conversion to Buddhism in 1956 supplied the alternative epistemic and religious foundation his project required.
Quotes
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Attributed to B. R. Ambedkar:
“Educate, agitate, organize.”
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“Nothing is infallible. Nothing is binding forever. Everything is subject to inquiry and examination.”
B. R. Ambedkar quoted from Indigenous Indians, Elst K. , 1993:390 -
“B. R. Ambedkar quoted from Indigenous Indians, Elst K. , 1993:390”
Nothing is infallible. Nothing is binding forever. Everything is subject to inquiry and examination. -
“On Christianity in Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Religious .”
It is an incontrovertible fact that Christianity was not enough to end the slavery of the Negroes in the United States . A civil war was necessary to give the Negro the freedom which was denied to him by the Christians. The dependence of those in charge of Christian endeavour to make the parties move on? A consideration of this question will enable us to understand why Christianity has failed to r -
“The Communists say that there are the only two means of establishing communism. The first is violence. Nothing short of it will suffice to break up the existing system. The other is dictatorship of the proletariat. Nothing short of it will suffice to continue the new system.”
On Communism, Thoughts of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar , p. 107 -
“On Communism, Thoughts of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar , p. 107”
The Communists say that there are the only two means of establishing communism. The first is violence. Nothing short of it will suffice to break up the existing system. The other is dictatorship of the proletariat. Nothing short of it will suffice to continue the new system. -
“On Gandhi , in Letters of Ambedkar , p. 205.”
My own view is that great men are of great service to their country but they are also at certain times a great hinderance to the progress of their country. There is one incident in Roman History which comes to my mind on this occasion. When Caesar was done to death and the matter was reported to Cicero , Cicero said to the messengers, "Tell the Romans your hour of liberty has come." While one regr