Buddhist Learning - Ancient India

The modern Indian state is largely ignorant of the Buddhist contribution to the formation of the Indian state and indeed of the very concept of Indian identity. Many scholars have argued that, India is not a country but a sub continent.
But how did the sub continent become one country, is a question that very few Indian scholars and historians, usually, hopelessly burdened, with self replicating, European research interests and directions, have explored with confidence.
The present day remediation of global power, the bankruptcy and failure of Euro centrism, brings forth new opportunities for re evaluation of history, knowledge production, European agendas and scholarly output.
In modern times, Dr B R Ambedkar, the man in charge of putting the Indian constitution to paper, was the first major figure to realize, and indeed ceaselessly propagate, the sheer importance of Buddhism to any account of Indian history and India as a nation.
Ambedkar summarily rejected the value, role and importance, of German, Russian Marxism, Russian and Chines communism, in addressing the major issues facing India in terms of social and economic inequality and surplus value control.
In this sense, Ambedkar is the real and major architect of the modern Indian state, and its founding ideals, once the role of Gandhi to Indian struggle against colonialism is properly understood in the historical and social context.