GANDHI AND TAGORE LETTERS.

Tagore criticized Gandhi for:

Having too isolationist, negative, and uniform sense of swaraj (i.e. “spin and
weave”)

Tactics (burning clothes, rejecting English education, emphasizing spinning own

clothe)

-he was criticized as according to tagore englisgh schools and whatever good
that came with colonialisation modernity wise was good and it should be kept
but gandhi was against it all.

-he was with gandhi on the motive but not the method.

-swaraj for gandhi was doing away with the british stuff which tagore wanted
to keep.

Gandhi insisted followers not blindly following and that needed to use these
tactics to rid nation of British.

Tagore felt that follower should not follow him blindly but follow and
understand his methods clearly.

Ambedkar:

Democracies have a ruling class

-he feels that the elites in the Indian context the brahmins and the banias are
the ruling class of the country and they are always superior to the other classes
and have more political backing and say.
Fears in post-independent India there will be a Brahmin-Bania ruling class

he feels that since right now they are the ones who are the superior
community and the dalits are treated so badly and have no part in politics that
in post colonial india this discrimination and opression will continue.

-since there stil woud be discrimination agnst the classes

Indians shouldn’t ape the west it should shun railways as it spreads diseases and makes religious
journeys very common and something which is supposed to be done with hardships is done easily,
doctors let ppl nt take care of demselves by treating them every time, lawyers are holding up the
british raj as they uphold the british laws which givern the ppl.

-he wanted peolple to returm to the village roots and live that way and thru
cottage industries he wanted to increase employment as he felt that that lyf
was the most fulfilling and represented India in d best way.