The freedom struggle in India was largely an elitist participation in the beginning. The ‘Constitutionalists’ as they were called relied on Constitutional methods of pleadings and petitions for registering demands that largely reflected the sentiments of the elite and intellectual class. They realized the importance of public support quite late in the course of freedom struggle. But public support needed highlighting public demands. Demands that could have directly impacted poor and common people. But even while raising public demands, it was only weakly realized that the problems faced by the common people of India also depended on the strata of society to which they belonged. Here becomes the theory of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar both important and significant. According to him, the Hindu society is inherently casteist. Since India has an overwhelming Hindu majority in its demography, people identify themselves and are identified by their castes more than by any other parameter of identi...