Ambedkar and Gandhi’s conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other’s story

Evidence

Ambedkar was Gandhi’s most formidable adversary. He challenged him not just politically or intellectually, but also morally. To have excised Ambedkar from Gandhi’s story, which is the story we all grew up on, is a travesty. Equally, to ignore Gandhi while writing about Ambedkar is to do Ambedkar a disservice, because Gandhi loomed over Ambedkar’s world in myriad and un-wonderful ways. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 86

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Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Frames the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate the reader will need to understand the politics of caste in India.

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