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Synopsis Dr. Ambedkar was an iconoclastic social reformer who at the very formative years of his career realized what it meant to be an untouchable and how struggle against untouchability could be launched. The social reform movement of the caste Hindus could not win him to its side because of his existential understanding of the pangs of untouchability. The issue of untouchability, for social reformers, was a mere problem. This problem was exterior to them in the sense that it affects only the untouchables. They themselves had never experienced the sinisterous blows of untouchability. Though they were sympathetic to the cause of Dalits, but they belonged to the camp that imposed this inhuman system of social segregation on the Dalits. Issues related to inclusive policies to remedy the consequences of exclusion suffered by social groups have long been a subject of much discussion. For the kind of issues it raises, this book will interest scholars and students of history, politics, sociology, and education, particularly those concerned with lower castes, Dalits, women and minorities, as well as equal opportunities policies.