BR Ambedkar collaborated with the British, and demanded a delay of the independence process. He believed that without Muslims, the untouchables, who were minorities in numbers, wealth and in resources, would be left to fend for themselves Ambedkar was unsuccessful electorally and the 1946 elections devastated his party’s prospects. This was a result of the joint electorates that made Dalits, …
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that 'religion' should not be used as a criterion to grant Scheduled Caste status.On July 3, a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul ordered that the petition filed by Tamil Activist Kundanthai Arasan to be tagged along with the pending petition seeking SC reservations for Christian and …
