396 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
- On the Kashmir issue, the policy adopted by the Congress Government is not acceptable to the Scheduled Castes Federation. This policy if continued will lead to a perpetual enmity betwen India and Pakistan, and the possibility of war between the two countries. The Scheduled Castes Federation believes that it is essential for the good of both countries that they should be good and friendly neighbours. For this purpose the proper policy to adopt towards Pakistan should be based upon two considerations.
(1) There should be no talk about the annulment of the partition of India. Partition should be accepted as a settled fact not to be reopened and that the two countries to continue as two separate sovereign States. (2) That, Kashmir to be partitioned– the Muslim area to go to Pakistan (subject to the wishes of the Kashmiries living in the Valley) and the non-Muslim area consisting of Jammu and Ladhak to come to India.
This policy has the best chance of producing friendly relations between the two countries, and the Scheduled Castes Federation will press for its acceptance.
The other centre of our foreign policy which has made other nations our enemies is China. India is made to fight her battle for entry in the United Nations Organisation as a permanent member thereof. This is an extraordinary thing. Why should India fight the battle of China when China is quite capable of fighting her own battle? This championing of the cause of Communist China by India has been responsible for the prevailing antagonism between India and America with the result that it has become impossible for India to obtain financial and technical aid from America.
We refused Dominion Status. We became an Independent Country. Subsequently we agreed to remain in the British Commonwealth– and yet out relations with the other countries is not at friendly.
In our foreign policy we have not been able to make a distinction beetween Capitalism and Parliamentary Democracy. The dislike of Capitalism is understandable. But we take care that