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Towards a new affirmative pact

Towards a new affirmative pact

In his last speech before the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, BR Ambedkar sounded a warning to the incoming lawmakers of a still infant Republic. He reminded them that the topsoil of democracy in India rested on a bed of deep inequity and, therefore, political democracy would never be enough in the absence of […]