Both Gandhi’s and Ambedkar’s visions were partly right and partly wrong
Evidence
The rival utopias of Gandhi and Ambedkar represented the classic battle between tradition and modernity. If utopias can be said to be ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, then both were right, and both were also grievously wrong. Gandhi was prescient enough to recognise the seed of cataclysm that was implanted in the project of Western modernity: God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 127
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Gandhi and Ambedkar’s ideological divergence was narrower than commonly believed — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 419; Ambedkar and Gandhi’s conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other’s story
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gandhi and Ambedkar’s ideological divergence was narrower than commonly believed — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 419; Ambedkar and Gandhi’s conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other’s story
Broader Connections
- Ambedkar and Gandhi’s conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other’s story
#complicates(0.75) - Gandhi and Ambedkar’s ideological divergence was narrower than commonly believed
#complicates(0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 419