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Contrary impressions

I went to see where Gandhi was assassinated, I was stopped to make room for Ambedkar, writes author

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With reference to the book review of Ambedkar: The Attendant Details, by Archis Mohan called “The essential Ambedkar” (May 19), the narrative makes several references to the Ambedkar-Mahatma Gandhi relationship. It reminds me of two occasions on which I got the opportunity to know about this often-talked-about relationship. My two impressions are at odds with each other. 

The first occasion was in the mid-1940s when Ambedkar was addressing a public meeting in Hindi, probably in Agra. He recalled the Poona Pact of 1932, the harm it had done to the untouchables and how he had to sign it to save Gandhi

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