In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee, advise and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destination of the country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest and independent, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that the intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means and the use of a means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

"My final words of advice to you is - Educate, Agitate, Organise - have faith in yourself. With justice on our side, I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of the human personality."

–Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. B.R.Ambedkar

http://video.google.com/url?docid=1596525106057216708&esrc=gvpl&ev=v&q=ambedkar&vidurl=http://video.google.com/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D1596525106057216708%26q%3Dambedkar%26hl%3Den&usg=AL29H21od9Y4NncHWaxRazcqoc6NF2BTHg

“Who tried to turn the Wheel of the Law
toward social justice for all ”

Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891–1956)
Founding Father, modern India
MA 1915, PhD(Columbia), DPhil(LSE) LLD 1952 (hon.)

Ambedkar was a leader in the struggle for Indian independence, the architect of the new nation's constitution, and the champion of civil rights for the 60 million members of the "untouchable" caste, to which he belonged. He spoke and wrote ceaselessly on behalf of "untouchables," but his passion for justice was broad: in 1950 he resigned from his position as the country's first minister of law when Nehru's cabinet refused to pass the Women's Rights Bill. Ambedkar was committed to maintaining his independence, and many of the positions he staked out in a long and complex relationship with Gandhi—on the future of Hinduism, for example—remain central to debate within Indian society.

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/bhimrao_ambedkar.html
http://www.ambedkar.org
http://www.dr-ambedkar.com

SITUATION OF DALITS FROM ASIA:

In Asia there are around 300 million Dalit population who are ex-untouchables are victim of hidden apartheid in India. This is usual affair of Atrocities against Dalits where Statistics from India's National Crime Records Bureau indicate that in,455 crimes were committed against Dalits. Every hour two Dalits were assaulted; every day three Dalit women raped, two Dalits murdered, and two Dalit homes torched. Yet the actual reality of crimes against Dalits is much worse than these numbers suggest. Amnesty estimated that only about 5 percent of attacks are registered.

A small 8-10 min. documentary on Indian Ex-Untouchable

'I am Dalit how are you?' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBxy1R0jitM

Human Rights and social development Links which gives little insight to the issues over the world
http://www.un.org
http://www.unhcr.org
http://www.amnesty.org
http://www.csreurope.org
http://www.hrw.org
http://www.idsn.org
http://www.ahrchk.net
http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org
http://www.sabrang.com
http://www.indiatogether.org

Social Initiative in India and Abroad

Ambedkar Website
http://www.ambedkar.org

Ambedkar Center for Justice and Peace
http://www.ambedkar.net

Ambedkar International Mission
http://www.ambedkarmission.org

National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights
http://www.dalit.org/

Dalit Awaj
http://www.dalitawaz.com/

Dalit Freedom Network
http://www.dalitnetwork.org/

Dalitstan
http://www.dalitstan.org

International Dalit Solidarity Network
http://www.idsn.org

Jambudvipa
http://www.jambudvipa.org/

Navsarjan
http://www.navsarjan.org

People's - Watch TamilNadu
http://www.pwtn.org/

Saxakali
http://saxakali.com/southasia/ambedkar.htm
http://saxakali.com/

Voice of Dalit International
http://www.vodintl.org.uk

Indian Social Cultural Dominant Laws:
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/ambedkar/BRManusmriti.html

Important Links
http://www.ambedkar.org/Links.htm

http://www.dalitstan.org/links

http://www.dalitstan.org/links/dalit.html

http://www.idsn.org/links.html

http://dalitchristains.com/Html/links.htm

Newsletters/papers/ Report
http://dalits.blogspot.com

http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/india/India994-11.htm

http://atrocitynews.wordpress.com/manuski-centre-khairlanje-report/

http://atrocitynews.wordpress.com/khairlanje-massacre-pictures/

http://www.dalitvoice.org/

http://www.sammaditthi.com

http://www.sammaditthi.com/insight/insight_home.asp

http://www.indiarights.org/


Writing and Speeches of Dr. Ambedkar- Government of Maharashtra's Publication

The Untouchables-who were they and why they became untouchables? http://www.saxakali.com/southasia/untoucha.htm

w h o w e r e t h e shudras? - How they came to be the Fourth Varna in the Indo-Aryan Society Inscribed to the Memory of MAHATMA JOTIBA FULE(1827-1890) The Greatest Shudra of Modern India who made the lower classes of Hindus conscious of their slavery to the higher classes and who preached the gospel that for India social democracy was more vital than independence from foreign rule. http://www.saxakali.com/southasia/shudras.htm

Aninihilation of Caste
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/

Ranade Gandhi & Jinnah Pakistan or, The Partition of Indiahttp://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/txt_ambedkar_ranade.html

Pakistan or, The Partition of India
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_partition/index.html

The Buddha and His Dhamma
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_buddha/index.html

His Life and Beyond

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/timeline/index.html

More on his thoughts on Economy, Politics, Hindu Religion, Constitution,

http://www.dr-ambedkar.com/home.htm

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"May all being be happy"

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