A study on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's vision on education and ideology and its relevance

Abstract

The present research is an educational study on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Dr. Ambedkar was as says Apa B. Pant: "a true revolutionary but not within the framework of any accepted routine theories of social revolution. He was a fundamentalist. He saw the decaying and decadent structure of Indian society. He saw and worked for its transformation through the accepted political, social, administrative and reformist channels. But when he saw that the structure was so impervious to any ordinary efforts, he went up for a basic transformation and change, he went to the heart of the problem, the human kind and converted the struggle to an altogether different dimension. He was thus courageous enough to give a clarion call to the people who suffered for thousands of years to get out of this pattern of caste, and ritual, superstition and fear of the Indian society." (Ahir, D. C; 1992:57) One can address Dr. Ambedkar as a Social Activist as he activated the conscience of his fellow Dalit brethren to the atrocities meted out to them by the high caste Hindus and the rights and freedoms that was beyond their reach, though they were citizens of a democratic country. He also tried to conscientise the general society to the problems he and his people had to undergo, thus alienating them from the mainstream of the society. Dr. Babasaheb is also called an educational thinker, because of his contributions to education. Dr. K. S. Chalam, an educationist and scholar in his article.