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...Ambedkar railed against what he has termed Nehru's "quixotic policy of saving the world." India's support of Red China, he said, was alienating her from the free world and choking off foreign aid to India's languishing millions. Then Dr. Ambedkar turned to local matters...
...Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Columbia-educated Minister for Law in Nehru's cabinet, is an "untouchable," and heads the largest group of India's 60 million untouchables, the sub-basement of the towering Hindu caste system. In New Delhi last week, testy little Dr. Ambedkar strode on to the floor of Parliament, and demanded the privilege of explaining to the House why he was quitting. When he was refused by the Deputy Speaker, he angrily stalked out and gave his statement to the press...
...Ambedkar is the first important Indian official who has openly attacked Nehru for being too friendly to China and not friendly enough to the U.S. But diplomats in New Delhi did not expect...
...caste system is still part of Hindu life; during Gandhi's lifetime Bhimrao had many struggles with the Hindu Mahatma. Though Gandhi insisted on abolishing untouchability, he favored keeping the caste system in a purified form. For several years Ambedkar has talked of trying to lead India's 50 million untouchables out of the Hindu fold...
Fifty million potential conversions is something to cause excitement in any religious group. Urgent overtures have been made to Ambedkar by Sikhs, Buddhists and Christian missionaries. For a time he flirted seriously with the Sikhs, but more recently he has turned toward Buddhism...