Fwd: TODAY DECEMBER XXV, DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE BURNING DOWN OF 'MANUSMRITI'

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Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:59 PM
Subject: TODAY DECEMBER XXV, DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE BURNING DOWN OF 'MANUSMRITI'
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TODAY DECEMBER XXV, DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE BURNING DOWN OF 'MANUSMRITI'

Posted by The Himalayan Voice:

[There was a strong reaction in Brahmanical press, Babasahib was called "Bheemaasura" by one paper. Dr. Ambedkar justified the burning of Manusmriti in various articles. He ridiculed those people that they have not read the Manusmriti, and declared that we will never accept it. For those who say it is an outdated booklet so why give importance to it, he invited attention to atrocities on dalits and said, these are because Hindus are following this book. And further asked, if it is outdated, how does it matter to you if somebody burns it. For those who enquire, what is achieved by dalits by burning it, he retorted, what M. Gandhi achieved by burning foreign clothes, what was achieved by burning "Dnyana-prakash" which published about marriage of Khan-Malini, what was achieved by those who burned Miss Mayo's book "Mother India" in New York, what was achieved by boycotting Simon Commission formed to frame political reforms? These were the forms of registering the protests, so was ours against Manusmriti.]
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