Bhimrao Ambedkar: Building Palaces on Dung Heaps

Incarnations: India in 50 Lives by BBC

Mar 14, 201614:20Society & Culture

Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute, looks at the life of Bhimrao Ambedkar, champion of the community previously known as 'untouchables' whom he renamed as Dalits. Ambedkar, who was a Dalit himself...

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