Political Science in Simple way

  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 ...

  “Arise and awake and see her, that is,  see India seated here on her eternal throne rejuvenated, more glorious than ever, this motherland or ours.” Swami Vivekananda’s Nationalism is different from all nationalism which we consider today. Vivekananda’s Nationalism was based on spiritualism, patriotism and religion.   There are some aspects of nationalism according to Vivekananda:   RELIGIOUS THEORY OF NATIONALISM Like Hegel, Vivekananda believed that there is one dominating principle in the life of each nation. In India’s context it is Religion. He believed that Indian lives were very simple and their believe towards almighty always generated a spirit inside from them. He believed that Religion would be the center through which nationalism will be generated in Indian. He said “In each nation, as in music, there is a main note, a central theme, upon which all others turn. Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India’s theme is religion”. ...

  Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha. He is regarded as the promulgator of the Modern Age in Indian history specially in Bengal. He was contemporary of Hegel (1770-1831). When French Revolution began, he was seventeen years old. On 20 August 1828, he founded the Brahmo Samaj. The formal opening of the Brahmo Samaj was made on January 23, 1830. Ram Mohan Roy was against of social evils and abuses and declared himself in open opposition to orthodoxy.   RAM MOHAN ROY AS MONISTIC THEISM Ram Mohan Roy taught the concept of goodness of an Almighty Power. He believed in Upanishad but he was also a monotheist means he believe that there is only one supreme God. The unity of Godhead was the central concept of his philosophy.   Ram Mohan Roy THE POLITICAL IDEAS OF RAM MOHAN ROY Ram Mohan Roy was greatly influenced by western modern thought and stressed on rationalism and modern scientific approach. THEORY...

  Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was a comprehensive personality. He had a mysterious personality and consciousness. He had a great knowledge about Hinduism, European philosophy and elements of modern science. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL CREATIVISM Vivekananda was a spiritualist. He like Dayananda and Gandhi believed in India’s message to west. The source of philosophy of Vivekananda are threefold 1.        The great Vedic and Vedanta tradition. Vivekananda inspire from the work of Ramanuja and Madhava, Vallabha and Nimbarka. He is said to to have gone through the eleven volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britanica. He had deep knowledge not only the literature of Hinduism but also of western thoughts from Plato to Spencer. He had full understanding about western scientific achievement. 2.        A powerful source of Vivekananda’s philosophy was his contact with Ramakrishna (1836-1886) one of the greatest saints and mystic...