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Introduction Life of Ambedkar biggest leader of dalits in india Dhananjaya Keer :  no other dalit leader could achieve for his communijty as much as he did Arun shourie : book- Worshipping False God called Ambedkar anti-national opposed Poorna Swaraj resolution of 1929 thanked British for improving condition of depressed class directed Dalits to stay away from  Gandhi's Harijan Sevak Sangh INC Ambedkar called Poona Pact as Himalayan blunder criticised Quit India movement supported Jinnah's demand for Pakistan wanted british to stay he held that priority to interest of Dalits over Nation Arundhati Roy , Chritopher Jafferelotte : wrong to call Ambedkar anti-national represented largest section of indian society (bahujan samaj), hence can't be regarded as anti-national difficult for him to accept society divided into castes as a nation nation trinity of liberty, equality, fraternity  I know we are divided politically, economically and socially. we are a group of warri...

Introduction: rights are the those conditions of social life, without which no man can seek in general to be at his best other statements; John Locke: Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm other in life, health, liberty or possessions- Two treatises of civil govt 2. Nozick: individuals have rights and that there are no things, persons or groups may do to them.  Though bentham tried to appear more exact, yet in practice his theory is also vague- Thomas Hodgskin Burke- Natural rights are metaphysical abstractions because real rights emerge from customs and traditions In contemporary times, the different theory of rights have been incorporated in grand theory of rights known as social welfare theory given by laski modern concept divine rights of king (medieval)->natural rights of man anti-state, limits power of state, society liberal concept- civil and political rights for marxist- man's interest not against society, hence focus on duty give economic and social righ...