If anthropometry is a science which can be depended upon to determine the race of a people ... [then its] measurements establish that the Brahmins an… - B. R. Ambedkar

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If anthropometry is a science which can be depended upon to determine the race of a people ... [then its] measurements establish that the Brahmins and the Untouchables belong to the same race. From this it follows that if the Brahmins are Aryans the Untouchables are also Aryans. If the Brahmins are Dravidians, the Untouchables are also Dravidians

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About B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (April 14, 1891 – December 6, 1956), an Indian polymath: jurist, economist, politician, and writer. He pioneered revival of Buddhism in India and inspired the modern Buddhist movement. He was independent India's first law minister, and the major architect of the Constitution of India.

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Birth Name: Bhīvā Rāmjī Sakpāḷ
Native Name: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar भीमराव रामजी आंबेडकर
Alternative Names: Bhimrao Ambedkar Babasaheb Ambedkar Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhimrao R. Ambedkar B.R. Ambedkar B R Ambedkar Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar Dr BR Ambedkar Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar BR Ambedkar Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Baba Saheb
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The Hindus have not the slightest affinity towards you, as they have towards Muslims. They consider Muslims closer than you. Hindus and Muslims are helpful to each other in local boards, in legislative councils, and in business. But is there a single instance of such sympathetic consideration shown towards you by the caste Hindus? On the contrary: they always cultivate hatred against you in their minds. What dreadful effects this hatred has produced, can be heard from those who have had occasion to go to the court for justice or to the police for help.

Unless there is unification of the Muslims who wish to separate from the Hindus and unless there is liberation of eachfrom the fear of domination by the other, there can be no doubt that this malaise of social stagnation will not be setright. Even a superficial observer cannot fail to notice that a spirit of aggression underlies the Hindu attitude towards the Muslim and the Muslim attitude towards the Hindu. The Hindu's spirit of aggression is a new phase which he has just begun to cultivate. The Muslim's spirit of aggression is his native endowment, and is ancient as compared with that of the Hindu. It is not that the Hindu, if given time, will not pick up and overtake the Muslim. But as matters stand to-day, the Muslim in this exhibition of the spirit of aggression leaves the Hindu far behind.

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