To me, Ambedkar reminds me of Thomas Paine (Sorry for western references
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Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who are deified in the Pantheon of the American revolutionaries, where still orthodox men. They still only wanted the landed white, male gentry to have power in the new America.
Thomas Paine however, thought that institution of slavery was incompatible with the new experiment in liberty known as the United States.
He truly believed that every Human being was assigned by god, certain inalienable rights.
Thomas Paine increasingly became a bitter character over the years.
Ambedkar was bitter towards the Hindus. And it is obvious the discrimination that he suffered colored his view of Hinduism. Interestingly, he did not have a flattering view of Islam either.
But he played the perfect foil to Gandhi's orthodoxy. The question was, how could India and Indians claim to be free, when it's Poor, it's women, Dalits, it's sexual minorities were deprived of their rights?
I see this phenomenon all across the world. The revolutionaries of today become the oppressors of tomorrow.
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scorpionx Your thoughts on my take