How the Nehruvian State Tried to Cancel Ambedkar

We are celebrating 75 years of the Indian Republic and the Constitution of India, especially its greatest modern icon, Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar, his life and work. Reflecting on how the Nehruvian State treated him is indeed an eye-opener. Any objective observer might ask whether the Nehruvian State practiced cancel culture. It did when it came to Dr BR Ambedkar and many others. The reasons are numerous, as we learn from books about him, particularly Savita Ambedkar’s autobiography, Babasaheb: My Life with Dr BR Ambedkar . It is heart-rending to read how the Congress and the Communists came together to manipulate the defeat of Babasaheb in the 1952 Lok Sabha elections from North Bombay. It took the seventh Prime Minister, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, to confer the Bharat Ratna in 1990 on Babasaheb. It took the Indian State 43 years after Independence and four decades after the establishment of the Indian Republic to honour the man who gave it all. This is indeed cancel culture of the Nehruvian State at its best.