Ambedkar mentions that history has shown only two ways in which a major nation has dealt with a minor nation that exists within it. The first way is for the former to destroy the nationality of the latter and assimilate and absorb it within itself. This would be done ‘by denying to the minor nation any right to language, religion or culture and by seeking to enforce upon it the language, religion and culture of the major nation’.15 The other alternative is to let the minor nation separate itself into an autonomous and sovereign entity.
