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Annihilation of Caste

Sunday, 11 January 2009 23:15 Dalits in Diaspora - Replies to the The Hindu Council/Forum UK
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We can think of no better document which is a better antidote to Hindu Council UK's distortion and propaganda regarding the Indian caste system and Dalits, than Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste . This document is a form of a speech that was drafted in 1935 but not delivered  at the Jat Pat Todk Mandal's[roughly-Break Caste System Society] public meeting. Jat Pat Todak Mandal  officials had invited Ambedkar to deliver his speech. However, later they withdrew their invitation because Ambedkar's speech was considered to be too radical. The issues raised by Ambedkar remain relevant today as these were at the time his speech was written.

Coulmbia University's website has a "multimedia study environment which now includes The Annihilation of Caste, explanatory annotations and some of Dr Ambedkar's other important writings."

Embedded in this multimedia document annotations are a number of videos which deal with some important issues relating to Ambedkar.

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            Guru Ravidas

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Utopia named Begumpura

Begumpura is the name of that place, without suffering or distress.

Without anxiety, taxes or property, without fear of failure or fear of loss.
(page 126)

On Pollution and Untouchability

Milk is defiled by the calf at the udder, flowers polluted by the bee, water by the fish.

(page 127)

On God not being the same as in Advaita

When I exist, You do not, Only You exist and I do not. A river flows into the waves of the ocean, Only water in water.

(page 89)

On the difference between Man and God

How can there be a difference between 'You' and 'I', 'I' and 'You', gold and bracelet, water and wave.

(page 125 from AG)

On Priesthood creating a separation between Man and God