Ambedkar topped a 2012 poll of greatest Indians after Gandhi
Evidence
In 2012, the newsmagazine Outlook published the result of just such a poll conducted on the eve of independence day. The question was: “Who, after the Mahatma, is the greatest Indian to have walked our soil?” Ambedkar topped the poll and Outlook devoted an entire issue (20 August 2012) to him. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 483
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Ambedkar and Gandhi’s conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other’s story (similarity 0.83)
- Ambedkar is remembered mainly as constitution-drafter, not as anti-caste radical (similarity 0.80)
- Ambedkar frames belief in the shastras and liberalism as contradictory (similarity 0.79)
- Gandhi claimed a sainthood equal to the British imperial mandate (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Ambedkar and Gandhi’s conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other’s story
#complicates(0.35) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 86