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Excluding Motilal Nehru from any discussion on the growth of adult suffrage in India is sacrilegious. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, by conferring the entire credit on Dr BR Ambedkar, ignored an important subtext of modern Indian history

Nehru and Ambedkar did not differ much in terms of ideology, but had significantly contrasting views about their execution, particularly with regard to their ideas on caste reservations, codification of Hindu law, and foreign policy. Kashmir too was an issue on which these two founders of modern India differed drastically.

Anurag Banerjee for The Caravan At Dadar’s Chaitya Bhoomi, where Ambedkar was cremated, stalls sell his books all year round. Anurag Banerjee for The Caravan IN A RARE MOMENT OF LEISURE, on the night of 5 December 1956, at his rented bungalow on Delhi’s Alipur Road, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar chanted the Buddhist liturgy as it played on the radiogram: “ Buddham Sharanam Gachchhami, Dhamman Sharanam Gachchhami, Sangham Sharanam Gachchhami”—I take refuge in Buddha, in...