Vol. 9 · pages 11–15
What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables; Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables
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Governing Class and the Servile Class
Nobody will have any quarrel with the abstract principle that
nothing should be done whereby the best shall be superseded by one who
is only better and the better by one who is merely good and the good by
one who is bad…….
But Man is not a mere machine. He is a human being with feelings
of sympathy for some and antipathy for others. This is even true of the
‘best’ man. He too is charged with the feelings of class sympathies and
class antipathies. Having regard to these considerations the ‘best’ man
from the governing class may well turn out to be the worst from the
point of view of the servile classes. The difference between the governing
classes and the servile classes in the matter of their attitudes towards
each other is the same as the attitude a person of one nation has for that
of another nation.
- Dr. Ambedkar
in ‘What Congress.... etc.’
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WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI
HAVE DONE TO
THE UNTOUCHABLES
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