The talk is an extension of the debates that have primarily taken place in the last two decades in social and political theory and pragmatism. It is through the existing debates the paper develops a departure in crucial ways to think of social and political theory and pragmatism as global projects of intellectual and political thinking in the twentieth century. Thus, an attempt has been made to read three formidable thinkers of the twentieth century, i.e. W. E. B. Du Bois, B. R. Ambedkar and Hannah Arendt. In a way, to be precise, how these three thinkers transformed their individual experiences as part of the broader collective that moved beyond their specific contexts.