Eamon De Valera, the Irish statesman who supported the Indian freedom movement and wrote a Constitution of Ireland, also recommended Ambedkar for the position either to Lord Mountbatten, last viceroy of British India, or India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr Gopal writes. (This was revealed in a letter that Edwina Mountbatten, the last vicereine, wrote to Ambedkar.)
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