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Ambedkar saw religion and caste as inseparable, unlike Gandhi

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Ambedkar saw religion and caste as inseparable, unlike Gandhi

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Gandhi believed that Ambedkar was throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Ambedkar believed the baby and the bathwater were a single, fused organism. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 116

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Ambedkar saw religion and caste as inseparable, unlike Gandhi
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Ambedkar and Gandhi's conflict remains irreconcilable and each is inseparable from the other's story
Ambedkar condemned both Gandhi and Hindu intellectuals as unfit guides for the masses
Ambedkar held that caste rests on religious notions, not just marriage and dining taboos.
Ambedkar rejected any religion that sanctioned caste inequities
Ambedkar, an Untouchable, dared to challenge a deified Gandhi
Bhakti offered god without priestly mediation to all castes and genders
Gandhi defended caste as superior to class on grounds of blood and heredity
Gandhi explicitly endorsed the caste system as control in 1921
Gandhi's published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus
Ambedkar, B R — Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated Critical Edition
Ambedkar, B R — Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated Critical Edition

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Ambedkar saw religion and caste as inseparable, unlike Gandhi

Ambedkar saw religion and caste as inseparable, unlike Gandhi

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