In a letter written to W.E.B. Du Bois in 1946, B.R. Ambedkar, the Dalit scholar, activist, and statesman, expressed a keen interest in the plight of black Americans. “I have been a student of the Negro problem and have read your writings throughout,” he wrote. “There is so much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in India and of the position of the Negroes in America that the study of the latter is not only natural but necessary.” This was not empty sentiment. At roughly the same time that he wrote to Du Bois, Ambedkar was in the process of outlining several constitutional provisions on behalf of his political party, the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation. That document, which contained language aimed at eliminating caste discrimination in India, owed much to its American sources: the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875, which Ambedkar had studied closely and believed afforded the kinds of state protections that Dalits were owed

在1946年写给WE Bo Du Bois的信中，达利特学者，活动家和政治家BR Ambedkar对美国黑人的困境表现出了浓厚的兴趣。他写道：“我曾经是黑人问题的学生，并且阅读了您的著作。” “印度的贱民与黑人在美国的地位非常相似，因此对后者的研究不仅是自然的，而且是必要的。” 这不是空洞的情绪。大约在他写信给杜布瓦（Du Bois）的同一时间，安贝德卡（Ambedkar）代表他的政党“全印度有计划的种姓联盟”概述了几项宪法规定。该文件载有旨在消除印度种姓歧视的语言，这应归功于其美国方面的资料：