How different are Ambedkar’s words on Adivasis from Gandhi’s words on Untouchables when he said: Muslims and Sikhs are all well organised. The ‘Untouchables’ are not. There is very little political consciousness among them, and they are so horribly treated that I want to save them against themselves. If they had separate electorates, their lives would be miserable in villages which are the strongholds of Hindu orthodoxy. It is the superior class of Hindus who have to do penance for having neglected the
