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There has been a lot of outrage about the scrubbing of #MaulanaAzad from the history textbooks in India by the BJP, and justifiably so.
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But for the last 75 years, nobody seems to have been outraged by the fact that the greatest Indian public intellectual of the 21st century, Dr. BR #Ambedkar, was practically scrubbed from history textbooks by Congress governments and BJP governments alike.
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Sure, when I studied about Ambedkar in Maharashtra State Board textbooks, they told me that he was the author of the #indianconstitution and had grown up enduring great #castediscrimination. But THAT WAS ALL.
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Maulana Azad, A Luminous Mind .
" Mr Speaker, Sir, it has fallen to my lot often to refer in this House to the death of a colleague or some great man.
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" Mr Speaker, Sir, it has fallen to my lot often to refer in this House to the death of a colleague or some great man.
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I have to perform that duty, a sad duty, again today in regard to one who was with us till a few days ago & who passed away rather suddenly, producing a sense of deep sorrow and grief not only to his colleagues in Parliament, but to innumerable people all over the country.
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Now, it has become almost, if I may say so, a commonplace, when a prominent person passes away, to say that he is irreplaceable, that his passing away has created a void which cannot be filled.
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