W.E.B Du Bois’s Indian penpal

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In the 1940s, B.R. Ambedkar, a champion for Dalit (low-caste) rights in India wrote a letter to W.E.B Du Bois – the prominent African-American intellectual and activist.

“[t]here is so much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in…