1000 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
is absolutely rotten, immoral, backward. If that could be pointed out. I am at one with Dr. Ambedkar and those who want to introduce reforms. But, if it is a mere difference of opinion, a mere difference in outlook, and you get whatever you want for those who share your point of view, why then do your force your opinions on millions of others, who do not share your view ? That is a point of view which I would very strongly urge before the Law Minister and Governmet. If I had given you a formula which indicated an abandonment of the provisions of the Code for those who believe in it, you can blame me. But, I wish you godspeed ; go ahead ; do whatever you like for those people who believe in the ideology which you are preaching here. But in respect of others who and whose forefathers had proceeded in accordance with the old traditions and Who are no less patriotic Indians than any one who is sponsoring this bill, why do you force your options on them ?
Talking of divorce has the law of divorce solved all social problems in countries where the system of divorce is now in existence ?
Shri Himatsingka (West Bengal) : Created more.
Dr. S. P. Mookerjee : I have been going through some of the recent bookson sociology. People are perturbed, because this is a complex human problem. The word has not found a solution to these problems. Those who have taken to the system of divorce, their number is leaping up. Do they find peace ? Have they found happiness ?
An Hon. Members : No.
Dr. S. P. Mookerjee : On the other hand new problems have come up. Read some of the latest books on psycho-analysis. There it is clearly pointed out that many of the evils which face the western countries are due to the mal-adjustment of the sexes. These are complex problems. Why blindly copy something from the west because some people from some part of the world have come and told you that. You are backward unless you adopt this ? If there are forward people in this country, who believe in this ideology, give them a long rope, sufficiently long, so that they may hang themselves. But, do not interfere with others who have found a solution of their problems through different doors altogether.
So far as monogamy is concerned. I shall support it with one reservation. Make it applicable to all the citizens of India. It is not a question that monogamy is good for the Hindus and monogamy is not good for others. Stand for one social doctrine.