D.R. closed many doors behind him as he left. He was thinking about Gandhi and Ambedkar in a way that it took me a decade after his death to be able to reconstruct and appreciate. He was on to something radically unassimilable that lurks at the heart of Indian modernity—a tradition of ethical thinking in Indian political discourse that does not submit to the hegemony of the modern West. D.R. was suspicious of both Ambedkar’s radicalism and Gandhi’s conservatism. He saw these two figures as inextricably coupled, complimenting, contradicting and completing one another. Political modernity in India is the child...
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