In the book excerpt of the book Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History | How Citizens, Communities, and Public Movements Shaped Constitutionalism, Democracy, and the Making of Independent India the authors state how some high caste Hindus including the Shankaracharya did not want the constitution to declare untouchability as illegal.
It is sad to see that humans do not wish equality of humans. Every community who have an upper hand wish to continue to hold that upper hand do not wish to embrace equality of humans.
While the context here is the Indian community, it applies to every community anywhere in the world. Be it the white skinned humans who wish to retain their supremacy over the "coloured" humans, or the humans who are males wish to retain their supremacy over the humans who are females, or the wealthy, privileged humans and the humans in power come together to retain supremacy over humans who are not wealthy and not in power.
The wisdom of the committee of Constituent Assembly must be lauded because they turned down this request and went with declaring all humans to be equal and also enshrined Universal Adult Franchise from day one. The later was diluted by changing the definition of adult to 18 years from the earlier 21. This was done without considering the fact that, at least, Indian men and women do not show concern towards the country and its citizens till they are settled in life which comes sometime between the early and late 20s. Given this fact the Government should have raised the age to 25 instead of lowering it to 18. It was done by the Congress simply to stay in power by awing the youth. Again another instance of a community wishing to retain power over others.
What the world needs is a "social revolution" led by a group which strongly believes in equality of humanity and believe that every living being should have a right to lead a free life. Where and when will such a community/group come about? Will it even be possible that such an event will happen given the divisiveness of humans?
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