Tag: B.R. Ambedkar
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Custodians Of Compassion And Country
HABITUALLY omitted from history books, women are often the torchbearers of resistance against injustice. Though just 14 of the 102 Indian independence activists listed on Wikipedia are women, India was one of the first nations in modern times to boast a female leader, Indira Gandhi, in 1966. And while history honours Dr B R Ambedkar as…
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Caste Is A Shadow In India: 4 Books To Read
OVER six decades ago, the Constitution of India abolished “untouchability” and prohibited discrimination based on caste – yet caste continues to oppress and ostracise people in India today. Even a sketchy understanding of India’s socio-political narrative or its economic and human development is incomplete without comprehension of what is referred to as world’s “longest surviving…