Ambedkar insisted Untouchables would choose political power over Hindu faith

Evidence

The British government said it would revoke the Award only if Ambedkar agreed. At first, Ambedkar asked Gandhi to weigh in the truth: “If the Mahatma chooses to ask the Depressed Classes to make a choice between Hindu faith and possession of political power, I am quite sure that the Depressed Classes will choose political power and save the Mahatma from self-immolation.” Ambedkar was making a point he had always made—about his unease with being told that the Untouchables belong to the ‘Hindu’ fold. “I’m not a part of the whole. I am a part apart,” he was to say as a member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1939. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1305

Categorization

• XREF: Ambedkar’s ‘I am not a part of the whole. I am a part apart’ resonates with the outsider-refusal dynamics in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1305