1.4 Pillars
of Democracy
Writer: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
He was born on 14th April 1891 in the town and military cantonment of Mhow (now Dr. Ambedkar Nagar) in Madhya Pradesh. He got his degree from Elphinston College, Mumbai. He subsequently obtained the doctorate from Columbia University, USA and London School of Economics. He was also assigned the big and challenging task of framing the ‘Constitution of India’ in the capacity of Chairman of the Drafting Committee. He was awarded the ‘Bharat Ratna’ posthumously for his dedication and commitment for the welfare of our country. He wrote various thought-provoking books.
About
the topic: Pillars of Democracy
Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar has laid emphasis on the values of liberty, equality and fraternity.
According to him, these principles will make India a strong nation. These
principles make our life livable.
He opines that hero-worship is a sure
road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship and the collapse of a nation.
He shows the threats of such hero worship and asks the readers to keep away
from such thinking.
Important
points:
According to
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, for maintaining democracy not in form but in fact it
needs to do the following things.
1) To hold
fast to constitutional methods for achieving our social and economic
objectives.
2) Do not use
any unconstitutional methods as these methods create the Grammar of Anarchy
leading liberty at stake.
3) One should
not lay liberties at the feet of even a great man. The man may have sacrificed
for the nation, but it is not justified one lay liberty at his feet.
4) One should
not trust the man with powers which enable him to subvert the
institutions. It is dangerous to liberty
of the people.
5) There is
nothing wrong in being grateful to great men but there are limits to that gratefulness. It is not good for democracy; it the limits
are exceeded.
6) In this
concern, Irish patriot Danniel O’Connel says that No man can be grateful at the
cost of his honour, not woman can be grateful at the cost of her chastity and
no nation can be grateful at the cost of liberty.
7) Here Dr.
Ambedkar has given an example of Bhakti.
It subtly fits to the gratefulness theory in India. Bhakti or
hero-worship plays diametrically opposite roles in Indian religion and Indian
politics.
8) Dr.Ambedkar
says ‘on the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life
of contradictions. The Indian people will get political right of equality. But they are away from equality in social and
economic life. In politics, the
principle is one man one vote and one vote one value. But the same principle is not applied in
social and political life of India.
9) Dr.
Ambedkar says, ‘If we continue to deny one man one value i.e. equality in our
social and economic life, we are putting our democracy in peril’
10) Fraternity means a sense of common brotherhood
of all Indians. According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar,
it is not easy to achieve fraternity in Indian social life.
11) Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar gives example in the words of Jame Bryce. ‘In American
Protestant Epicopal church, at its triennial convention a prayer for all the
people was said. The words ran as “O
Lord bless our nation” But the objections were raised by the people of a
religious community and later on the words in the prayer was changed as ‘O
Lord, bless these United States’.
12) USA has
no caste problem still the people did not accept as they were a nation. In
India there are so many castes. Castes are anti-national. They bring about separation
in social life. Castes are antinational as they generate jealousy and antipathy
between common people.
13) According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, in believing that we are a nation, we are doing a great mistake. People divided into several thousands of castes can’t be a nation.
CONCLUSION:
Fraternity can be a fact only when there is a nation. Without
fraternity, equality and liberty will be no deeper than coats of paints.
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