Why the Indian Labour is Determined to Win the War — B.R. Ambedkar

In August 1942 the Congress launched the Quit India movement, and much of the country turned against the British war effort. That same year, on All India Radio’s Bombay station, B.R. Ambedkar told listeners that Indian workers wanted the war won, and won decisively. Was that loyalty to the Empire, or something sharper? This speech is his answer: labour was fighting for a New Order of its own, and a Nazi victory would have ended that hope.

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Ambedkar argues that Indian labour backs the war not for wartime gains or out of loyalty to Britain, but because Nazism would make Indians serfs, and because only victory, followed by a fight against the Old Order, can bring a New Social Order built on liberty, equality and fraternity.

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