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more-in“Since Independence, there has been significant progress in India: women and Dalits are less exploited and less discriminated against than at any time in the past 5,000 years. Delivering a talk ‘India at 70: a Historian’s Report Card’ as part of the [former Madras Christian College principal] Dr.
Chandran D.S. CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat reminisced his student days at the college when Dr.
Devanesan was the principal. Political democracy, economic growth, development and urbanisation have slowly and steadily chipped away these inequalities,” said historian and author Ramachandra Guha here on Friday. It also made an independent India possible.”“It is here that leaders of non-cooperation defined what Swaraj could mean..