Dr. Suraj Yengde, a Harvard fellow, electrified the audience with his one-hour speech with pedantic details on Ambedkar’s state socialism. Besides the historical perspective of Ambedkar’s state socialism, he connected the dots with contemporary Indian conditions. He said that if the land had been distributed equally across all the castes who are working on the land after Independence, caste discrimination and violence would have ended long before. Ambedkar’s state socialism provided more job security for the workers which would address their physical and mental health. Social discrimination against Dalits was directly linked to their economic dependence on so called upper castes. In the rural areas, Dalits depend on the so called upper caste for the land and in the urban economy Dalits depend on non-Dalits for jobs and employment. He concluded that the annihilation of caste is tantamount to annihilation of landlordism and redistribution of all lands across the castes. He emphasized reservation in private sector is an urgent need of social justice in the neoliberal era.
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