British schooling access did not remove daily caste humiliations from Untouchable children

Evidence

Ambedkar’s encounters with humiliation and injustice began from his early childhood. When Gandhi was serving in the South African War, Ambedkar was ten years old, living with his aunt and going to a local government school in Satara. Thanks to a new British legislation, he was allowed to go to a Touchable school, but he was made to sit apart from his classmates, on a scrap of gunnysack, so that he would not pollute the classroom floor. He remained thirsty all day because he was not allowed to drink from the Touchables’ tap. Satara’s barbers would not cut his hair, not even the barbers who sheared goats and buffaloes. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 294

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly did the new British legislation change, and how did it frame admission of Untouchables while leaving segregation intact?