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Dr Savita Bhimrao Ambedkar – for whom nothing mattered more than Ambedkar

The mention of Dr Ambedkar’s second wife tends to make Ambedkarites uncomfortable. But has anyone stopped to consider how progressive this scholarly Brahmin doctor must have been to leave everything that was hers to be the wife of a Dalit leader?

मोहनदास नैमिशराय June 21, 2018
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