Untouchables had no press access because Congress-aligned Brahmin journalists controlled media

Evidence

In What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables (BAWS 9, 200), Ambedkar writes: “[The Untouchables] have no Press and the Congress Press is closed to them. It is determined not to give them the slightest publicity. They cannot have their own Press. It is obvious that no paper can survive without advertisement revenue.… The staff of the Associated Press in India, which is the main news distributing agency in India, is entirely drawn from Madras Brahmins—indeed the whole of the Press in India is in their hands and who for well-known reasons are entirely pro-Congress and will not allow any news hostile to the Congress to get publicity. These are reasons beyond the control of the Untouchables.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1188

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the later claim that Hindutva ideologue Arun Shourie cast Ambedkar as a British ‘stooge’ — same doubt about nationalist credentials recurring.