B. R. Ambedkar’s ideas – caste annihilation, securing rights to the depressed class, representation of different oppressed sections in political affairs, egalitarian economic arrangement, education, women rights, and democracy – all have the potentiality to be linked with his ideas of a nation which is inclusive in nature. His idea of social equality and cultural unity was path breaking in his period, even relevant in recent times too. Ambedkar’s endeavour of annihilation of caste was no longer contradictory to his idea of nation-building. His major concern was how India would become a nation without a large number of people who seemed untouchables and thus socially excluded. He was aware of that the social solidarity is the key for struggle against colonialism. The struggle against colonialism would not be rewarding unless realizing social solidarity among different religious groups, castes, and communities. It was undeniably a great challenge to Ambedkar to make a link between his efforts to annihilation of caste and to build India as an inclusive nation which is discussed throughout this paper by integrating apparently diverse thoughts of B. R. Ambedkar.

This article highlights the role of state to promote CSR in India.

Tamil politics in India has an enduring characteristic of a sub-nationalist orientation which, sometimes, bares with the populist mobilization by the political parties of Tamil Nadu. Recently, the working president of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, one of the prominent political parties of Tamil Nadu, recycles the issue of Dravida Nadu, a hypothetical land for the Tamils own based on their ethnonational identity, which had been dropped almost 55 years ago. Dravida Nadu highlights the linguistic, cultural and ethnonational resistance against north-Indian dominated pan-Indian nationalism. Cauvery water dispute, debate over Jallikattu, anti-Hindi stance, and protest against the terms of reference of the Fifteenth Finance Commission are the signs of anticentre campaign in Tamil politics and being used not only for upholding Tamil cultural nationalism but for mobilizing the people in electoral combat zone in Tamil Nadu.