Nepal, June 4 -- In 1946, BR Ambedkar, educationally the most accomplished Indian of his time (he received his education at Columbia and the London School of Economics), wrote to WEB Du Bois, the Harvard-educated African American intellectual, telling the latter that, 'I was very much interested to read that the Negroes of America have filed a petition to the UNO'. He asked for 'two or three' copies of the Negro petition to the newly formed world body because, as Ambedkar informs Du Bois, the 'Untouchables of India are also thinking of following suit'. Ambedkar, at the end of his decades-long differences with Gandhi about caste matters and such groundbreaking books as the Annihilation of Caste (1936), would become the draftsman of the Ind...