Close to Delhi University, 26, Alipur Road in Civil Lines is an enormous property with two wings and two gardens, divided by a large driveway. The current structure stands in place of the residence where B.R. Ambedkar died in late 1956. It’s designated a national monument but hardly gets the footfalls of the memorials of Gandhi or Nehru also located in the capital. When I went in one evening, a security guard asked me to remove my shoes. He then showed me around the dusty premises, which house a few photographs, placards in Hindi and English bearing Ambedkar’s words, and books in steel cupboards that have seldom been opened.