AMBEDKAR hailed from a family of military men. His father
Ramji Sakpal was a Subedar Major in the British Indian Army. Ambedkar’s
maternal grandfather and six uncles were also Subedar Majors in the British
force. Subedar Major was the highest post any Indian could rise to in the
British Army. The valour, loyalty or spiritual liberation did not break the
shackles of centuries of untouchable status for the dalits. The untouchables
were treated with unqualified disdain and hatred: physically, socially, economically,
spiritually just as the Hindu social order demanded, upon its inhabitants.
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