In one of the essays, ‘The American Experience of B R Ambedkar’ included in her book, From Untouchable to Dalit, Eleanor Zelliot writes: “A direct comparison between the Negroes of America and Untouchables of India does not appear in Ambedkar’s writings.” She may be right, in a way, but Ambedkar does make comparison between slaves and untouchables, cites parallel cases and also shows how Hindus...