DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMBEDKAR AND GANDHI ON CASTE
Mahatma Gandhi and B R Ambedkar were two great socio-political reformers of their times. They were intellectual elite of their respective times. Being from an upper caste, Gandhi left every privilege that life afforded and got down to even do jobs like cleaning dirt to symbolize that he was the same as the members on untouchable community. On the other hand, Dr Ambedkar chose to acquire academic brilliance and even a sense of fashion, to symbolize that he, by birth an untouchable was no different than the members on the so-called higher castes. Both had opposite approaches to the same mean. Before study their ideological differences, we should take a glance on similarities of both. SIMILARITIES · Both Dr Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi agreed that caste-based discrimination and the custom of untouchability in India was unjust. It should be abolished. · Both created organizations to fight this social scourge of untouchability at the ground level and wrote exten