Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
My paper intends to present Views of Dr. Ambedkar on dalit Food and their nutrition. In this paper talk about what are the opinions of Dr. Ambedkar about food and Nutritional life of Downtrodden. According to Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar, there are three distinct identities that are separated by the food hierarchy: those who consume beef (at the bottom), those who consume non-vegetarian cuisine other than beef (in the middle), and those who do not eat flesh (at the top). Caste politics and modern memories of Dalit food are closely intertwined. In many regions of the country that Ambedkar was aware of, the Untouchables had only one "secure" means of subsistence: they had the "right to beg" Hindu families in their villages for sustenance. The government used this "customary right" while determining the compensation for Untouchables performing menial government tasks in rural areas. "Statutory beggary" replaced customary beggary. In his age Downtrodden, they don't have food security and Nutritional food. Breaking the cycle of food begging was, in a way, a central tenet of Ambedkar's political philosophy and activism. During his inaugural speech at the first of two landmark events in Mahad, Maharashtra, in 1927, he advised the audience to quit begging for food and instead pursue a career in farming, commerce, education, or white-collar employment. He was aware of hunger firsthand because, although receiving a scholarship to study in New York and London, he could only afford to eat sparingly and his family in Bombay had difficulty providing for themselves. Ambedkar talked about those events a lot, but his ideas were not limited to his own life. He elucidated on how socially imposed starvation was at the heart of the Untouchables' systemic subjugation and degradation.