Mahad Satyagraha When Ambedkar Led Dalits to Drink Water and Changed History
On 20 March 1927, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar walked to a public water tank in the small Maharashtra town of Mahad and drank from it. That sentence sounds simple. Almost unremarkable. But in 1927, India It was revolutionary. The Chavdar Lake in Mahad was a public tank — built and maintained by public money. Yet Dalit…
