Putting the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate into context for those unfamiliar with its history and its protagonists will require detours into their very different political trajectories. Gandhi, a Vaishya, born into a Gujarati Bania family, was the latest in a long tradition of privileged-caste Hindu reformers and their organisations. Ambedkar, the Untouchable, was heir to the anticaste intellectual tradition that goes back to 200–100 BCE. Both men were their generation’s emissaries of a profound social, political and philosophical conflict that had begun long ago and has still by no means ended. When the text ofĪnnihilation of Caste was published, the man who is often called the ‘Greatest of Hindus’ - Mahatma Gandhi - responded to Ambedkar’s provocation. Shastra s and to simultaneously think of oneself as liberal or moderate is a contradiction in terms.
Ambedkar’s point is that to believe in the Hindu
It is not an argument directed at Hindu fundamentalists or extremists, but at those who considered themselves moderate, those whom Ambedkar called “the best of Hindus”- and some academics call “left-wing Hindus”.
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