DR. AMBEDKAR’S DREAMS NATION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUALITY IN INDIA
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Author(s):
DASHARATH KUMAR
Vol - 6, Issue- 2 ,
Page(s) : 60 - 66
(2015 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/BBSSES
Abstract
This paper is made an attempt to investigate Dr. Ambedkar's idea of social justice in Indian perspectives. His aim was abolition of slave system, injustice, inequality, tyranny and exploitation from caste based Hindu society. Ambedkar’s society is based on socioeconomic and political justice. In his ideal society the human dignity, equality and conscience of the people will be based on liberty, equality and fraternity. Dr. Ambedkar was a multifaceted personality, an intellectual revolutionary, a ray of hope for downtrodden in India and a statesman of the 20th century. He was an architect of Indian Constitution and he also a great teacher, educationist, lawyer, economist, anthropologist, sociologist, author, orator, politician, trade union leader, preacher and above all social revolutionary. Particularly, Ambedkar worked for the Dalit rights, women rights, backward castes, minorities and working class people and struggled all his life for the minimum dignity of all human beings irrespective of caste or class.
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