Ambedkar: The Attendant Details
Edited by Salim Yusufji
Navayana
190 pages; Rs 295
On May 26, 2015, to mark the first anniversary of his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a rally at the birthplace of Deen Dayal Upadhyay in Mathura, that the Jana Sangh ideologue was one of three men who shaped the Indian political discourse in the 20th century. The other two, he said, were Mahatma Gandhi and socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia.
Mr. Modi did not mention Jawaharlal Nehru or Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. Few from a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) background would publicly accept
