Thoughts On Linguistic States

Ambedkar’s insight into the matter of creation of linguistic states provides the reader with several vantage points. Despite many criticisms that he had to face in his lifetime and beyond, one cannot ignore the fact that he had never been an arm-chair philosopher. Apart from commenting on the socio-political, and economic situation of the country, he had also been an activist in its truest sense. Right in the preface, he states that his views are subject to change. Readers and critics might call him inconsistent in his stance, but while quoting Emerson, he argues that responsibility is more crucial when weighed against consistency. Thus, taking all his viewpoints into account, one can argue that Ambedkar’s perspective in this text is based on nothing but statistical evidence, empirical studies, reason and nevertheless marked by certain amount of flexibility.