Influence of White Western Christianity on Mahatma Jothibha Phule and Baba Saheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Founding of Modern Civilization in the History of India

Abstract

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and Father of Indian Civilization Baba Saheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar are the universal philosophers and founding fathers of Indian civilization in the history of modern India. They have  initiated social change in the nineteenth and twentieth  century India especially in Maharashtra through their egalitarian philosophy which was highly influenced and nurtured by Christianity. The modern civilization in India was started with the arrival of Christians from the west which witnessed a deep rooted uncivilized practices of Hindu castes on the civilized Untouchables who are waiting for bringing social and economic justices to the victims of Hindu religion.Mahatma Jothibha Phule and Father of Indian Civilization Dr. B. R. Ambedkar have emerged as greatest fighters for the social equality in India with the greatest influence of Christian philosophers and intellectuals.All major fights for human rights of Untouchables/Shudras as well as for the unskilled higher caste Hindu women were  taken up by these Christian social reformers were connected with many  issues such as untouchability, caste inequalities, annihilation of caste and its mother Hindutva, female infanticide, child marriages of higher caste Hindus, ban on Untouchables/Shudras/and women's education by the Hindu Brahmins, Sati, tonsuring of widows, ban on widow remarriage by the Hindu scriptures and its religion. At the same time, Mahatma Jothibha Phule and Father of Indian Civilization Dr. B. R. Ambedkar were concentrated more on annihilating Hindu religionous uncivilized theories and practices which benefited Hindu castes.Jotiba took up the issue of providing education for the Untouchables/Shudras and non-meritorious higher caste Hindu Brahmin women and caste. Whereas Baba Saheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar took up the cause of Untouchables/Shudras as well as non-meritorious higher caste Hindu women to educate as well as to agitate against tyranny of Hindu religion.Both were  revolted against the unjust uncivilized Hindu religious sponsored caste-system under which millions of people particularly Untouchables/Shudras and women  had suffered for four thousand years till the arrival of civilized Christians from west in the sixteenth century. Their revolt against the barbarian practices of Hindu religion and its caste system integrated social and religious reform with equality, liberty and fraternity. They emerged as the champions of the civilizations with the inspiration of Christian philosophers  in India and were recognized as a messaiahs of civilized Untouchables and uncivilized-non-meritorious Shudras and women in oppressed Hindu India. Mahatma Jothibha Phule and Father of Indian Civilization Dr. B. R. Ambedkar were highly influenced by the white western Christian thinkers Thomas Paine's ideas of Rights of Man as well as Ambedkar's staying and studying at the world renowed Christian Universities at Colombia University in the USA and at the London School of Economics in the Great Britain and at the Bann University in the Germany.