380 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
can be assured and there need be no exploitation. So far Untocuhables and even many Caste Hindus and Muslims do not have tenancy rights. All these landless peasants are mere hands.
MRA : Then the right to work should have been recognised as a fundamental right.
BRA: I was only one of the members of the drafting committee.
MRA : So you became a lamb before the lions ! BRA : I bleated good deal ! I am now roaring !
MRA : As a lawyer, you know how the judges will always decide in favour of the high caste, upper class Hindus.
BRA : Of course, the only Non-Brahmin in our Government of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru fought hard against the night to own property being a fundamental right .... But Babu Rajendra Prasad felt that Nehru wanted to make India into Russia. The Caste Hindus, therefore, only conceded the other rights of man as directive principles .... to be fought for in Parliament.
MRA : Which would be weighted in favour of men of property.
BRA : The socialists can win a majority one day. And ask for redress. Any how, the outcastes and tribals have been declared Scheduled Castes. They will be given certain privileges to uplift them—like reservation for admission to schools and colleges and scholarships.
MRA : The Caste Hindus will always resent reservation.
BRA : We must organise ourselves. Arouse the disinherited to fight. There are more outcastes than Caste Hindus—if we include the Muslims who are also regarded as Untouchables by the casteists. And the tribal people. Together, with the socialists they can abolish ownership of private property ! No landlords, no tenants ! No landless labourers !
MRA : State capitalism might also prove to be dangerous. You know what Stalin has done in Russia. Imposed a set of bureaucrats on the people in the name of Communism !