Contribution of Untouchables and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar to India’s Independence

Volume 2 Issue 2 Monsoon Edition 2022

Abstract

Aim: All of us celebrate Independence Day as a national festival because our country became free from British rule on 15 August 1947. Since then, we have been listening that many people contributed to making our country independent, and many people sacrificed their lives for our motherland, but only a few people are getting credit for it. We have never heard of the contribution of untouchables to independence yet now. When we attend the program of Independence Day at any institution like college, degree college, any government sector or private sector, we listen there only some particular persons, who belong to the upper caste, but no one speaks a single word in reverence of untouchables. We feel at that time, untouchability and discrimination had still not been removed from the minds of human beings. Methodology and Approach: The study is based on the books of Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and other Schedule Caste writers’ books. Descriptive and analytical approaches have been used here. Outcome: A man wants to show himself as religious, mindful, dutiful, and full of humanity, but he cannot refrain from the discrimination of untouchability and cruelty. Conclusion and Suggestion: Nowadays a person studies only for his competition, not for his knowledge, therefore he cannot measure the quality of scholars and uses discrimination and cruelty in his behavior.