The Process of Globalization Affecting the Lives of Dalits: A View of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Abstract

The role played by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, as Chairperson of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution, has left it imprint on the social tapestry of the country after independence, and shaped the socio-political fabric of India today. It would have been a different India without him and, in all probability, a much more inequitable and unjust one. He attempted to forge India’s moral and social foundations a new and strove for a political order of constitutional democracy that is sensitive to disadvantaged, inherited from the past or engendered by prevailing social relations. Not only this he stresses the need for industrialization so as to move surplus labor from agriculture to other productive occupations, accompanied by large capital investments to raise yields. He sees an extremely important role for the state in such transformation of agriculture to small or large scale business for dalits.