AP PSYCHOLOGY

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ fought for rights along with Mahatma Gandhi
A
Jawaharlal Nehru
B
Dr B R Ambedkar
C
Lal Bahadur Shastri
D
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ambedkar fought for the rights of untouchables along with Mahatma Gandhi. Explanation: B.R. Ambedkar, the father of our Indian constitution, was a staunch believer inequality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gandhi and Ambedkar highly disagreed on the concept of mechanization of production and the use of heavy machinery. Ambedkar believed that machinery and modern civilization will benefit all but Gandhi blamed mechanization for the exploitative socio-economic order in the world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ambedkar fought for the rights of workers and peasants. In the late 1920s and especially in the 1930s when he had formed his Independent Labour Party, he took up the cause of tenants (from both the dalit Mahars and the caste Hindu Kunbis) in the Konkan region of Maharashtra.

Detailed explanation-4: -He began with public movements and marches to open up public drinking water resources. He also began a struggle for the right to enter Hindu temples. He led a satyagraha in Mahad to fight for the right of the untouchable community to draw water from the main water tank of the town.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the textbook Religions in the Modern World, B. R. Ambedkar, who was also a supporter of the Act, was considered to be the “untouchable leader” who made great efforts to eliminate caste system privileges that included participation in public festivals, access to temples, and wedding rituals.

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