Reminiscing Dr. Ambedkar's Philosophy towards Gender Discrimination

Abstract

Indian culture is an apologue that is divided into various characteristics. Its soul is the Hindu Dharamshastras that produces caste, gender inequity, untouchability, pure or impure, superior or inferior, in which women have been considered impure and inferior. Women had not the right to take education, to express her expression in the public sphere and it was a mandatory law for her; the law comes through the centuries from the Vedic period to the present. It has become a tradition to consider women as subordinate. For women, however, many social reformers have worked for her emancipation in various manners: Jotiba Phule, Savitri Phule, Periyar E.V Ramaswami, Maharishi Karve and Dr.B.R. Ambedkar. However, enhancement of women's condition, it is not appropriate in the present context. Moreover, its symptoms have changed and it has become a discourse in society. In the present context, one raises questions: Do women have freedom of expression herself.is she free in a real sense? Why is she not free from servitude? Who is responsible for her? Why there is no upgrading of women's condition in Indian society? Are any politics involved? Or is she herself diligent for it or others? Even though we are celebrating the 78th birth birth-anniversary of Indian Independence, all these questions are in mind, but it is needed to comprehend Dr.B.R. Ambedkar and his contribution to women's freedom. He is not merely a prolific writer, but also a social reformer, sociologist, anthropologist, economist, political thinker and its architect of Indian constitution. The aim of this paper is to examine how Ambedkar's philosophy is significant in the present socio-cultural and political milieu for women's liberation. It can be said that his ideology is based on three tenets: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity'. and it is a disaster that women have been remained in margin from mainstream on these three principles.