> In 1913 (Gandhi’s last year in South Africa), the boy who had to sit on a gunnysack on his classroom floor was admitted to Columbia University in New York. It was while he was there, under the tutelage of John Dewey (of ‘Deweyan liberalism’ fame), #EdwinSeligman, #JamesShotwell, #JamesHarveyRobinson and A.A. Goldenweiser, that he wrote his original, path-breaking paper on caste, “#CastesInIndia: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development”
#ArundhatiRoy on #Ambedkar's teachers in the #USA