Mahatma Gandhi Ambedkar Debate: Seventy-eight years after Mahatma Gandhi’s death, the world continues to debate and engage with his relationship with his most formidable adversary—B R Ambedkar. The debate between Gandhi and Ambedkar was far more than a theoretical disagreement between two individuals. On political representationA few weeks before the Second Round Table Conference in 1931, Mahatma Gandhi and B R Ambedkar met for the first time in Bombay. Gandhi questioned Ambedkar about his criticism of the Congress, interpreting it as an attack on the homeland itself. On religionA devout Hindu, Gandhi understood religion as a moral compass for social reform.