The Last Brahmin: Text 

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Can there be political reform or economic reform without social reform? 

Should political and economic reform precede social reform? 

~ Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in ‘The Annihilation of Caste’ 

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These were undoubtedly the most critical, significant and yet highly inflammable questions at a time, every Hindustani was pregnant with independence. This was going to be the birth of ‘modern India’ - a perfect paradox for the land of the oldest living religion in the world, Hinduism. A morphing geography flushed with cultural influences from the world over, for thousands of years, would now attain a shape, a scribbled border of its own on the Asian subcontinent. An ancient history richer than most in knowledge, tradition, civilisations and natural resources was bestowed upon us, but what defined us was our all-alluring Hindu philosophy, theology and spirituality. In the intoxication of an impending embrace with independence, what did the sacred people born into Hinduism and known to adherents as Sanatan Dharma (‘the eternal tradition’, or the ‘eternal way’) want to give birth to? What did they want to identify as in the free world?

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