While Celebrating Ambedkar as a ‘National Hero’, We Must Not Forget His Central Thesis
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While Celebrating Ambedkar as a ‘National Hero’, We Must Not Forget His Central Thesis

It will be a disservice to Ambedkar and to his intellectual oeuvre if we neglect the fundamental questions of caste and untouchability, and applaud him as an abstract national hero. Remembering Ambedkar demands that we advance the struggle to annihilate caste.