Ambedkar article

From an interesting new article published in an issue of Borderlands devoted to the Gandhi legacy, with a discussion of the activist Ambedkar:
"... all through the late 1940s right up to his death in 1956, he (Gandhi) travelled to many parts of Buddhist Asia—Sri Lanka, Burma, Tibet and Japan—in order to forge spiritual alliances and bring to life once again an Asian world formation that could converse with modernity in tongues both sacred and secular.
Bhabha, "vernacular cosmopolitanism" While I do draw on Bhabha's assertion that the phrase best applies to the orientation of embattled leaders and thought figures of the non-White, non-Western world—Du Bois, Gandhi, Ambedkar, Fanon, Morrison—who attempt to "translate between cultures and across them in order to survive, not in order to assert the sovereignty of a civilized class or the spiritual autonomy of a revered ideal" (Bhabha, 2002: 23-24)
Bhabha, Homi (2002), in conversation with John Comaroff, "Speaking of Postcoloniality in the Continuous Present", in Goldberg, D T. and Quayson, A. eds. (2002), Relocating Postcolonialism, Oxford: Blackwell.
Debjani Ganguly 'Convergent Cosmopolitics in the Age of Empire: Gandhi and Ambedkar in World History' (19/06/2006)