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Ambedkar cartoon that rocked LS was sketched in
1950s
Friday May 11, 2012 06:27:34 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The school
textbook cartoon of B.R. Ambedkar which created a furore in
parliament Friday was sketched by cartoonist Keshav Shankar Pillai
in the 1950s while the Constitution was being framed, said a human
resource development ministry official.
Shankar, as he was popularly called, later founded the publishing
house, Children's Book Trust, in 1957. He made cartoons for
newspapers and his magazine, Shankar's Weekly, started in 1948.
The government of India honoured him with Padma Shri in 1956,
Padma Bhushan in 1966 and Padma Vibhushan in 1976.
The controversial cartoon was probably first published in 1948 and
has been a part of NCERT's (National Council Of Educational
Research And Training) Class XI textbook in Tamil Nadu since 2006.
The cartoon is credited to Children's Book Trust.
It shows Ambedkar, a Dalit leader and creator of the Indian
Constitution, seated on a snail with 'Constitution' written on it
and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, whipping the
snail. In the background is a crowd.
Several groups in Tamil Nadu have been demanding the removal of
the cartoon from the textbook and punishment to those responsible
for its publication.
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