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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TopicPoona Pact

Topic: Poona Pact

What you didn’t know about Ambedkar’s Poona Pact journey: celebration to criticism

Ashok Gopal’s A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar, the first complete biography of Ambedkar published by Navayana on the eve of the 132nd birth anniversary, sheds new light on the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate by paying attention to Ambedkar’s writings in Marathi on the Poona Pact and his evolving views on Gandhi.

Why Ambedkar changed on separate electorate. His shift was strategic not voluntary

Ambedkar favoured communal representation but had serious objections to a separate communal electorate being the best way to achieve it.

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Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

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