Comparative Study B.R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi

Abstract

Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. B.R.Ambedkar, the chief architect of the India shared many things in common. There existed sharp contradiction also in their approaches to social reforms and in details relating to political freedom. The scheme in Gandhi was very comprehensive; it never allowed social reform to remain aside of political freedom. Gandhi bumming foreign clothes and B.R.Ambedkar buming Manusmrithi were no mere acts of sentiments; for both foreign clothes and Manusmrithi had the effect of bondage and slavery for the countrymen. A Pinch of salt from God's ocean was a political catharsis and 'a drop handful of water from the Mahad tank' was the proclamation of social philosophy. These were no symbolic gestures; they were the outward manifestations or portents of the new emerging social and political patterns, for India, in the offing. Gandhi made it clear as, "The cities live upon the villages, India is daily growing poorer. In losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption it is a sin to be foreign cloth in burning foreign cloth I burn my shame".