Caste can only be destroyed by attacking its religious foundations

Evidence

Mr Sant Ram, I am sure, will bear me out when I say that in reply to one of his letters I had said that the real method of breaking up the caste system was not to bring about inter-caste dinners and inter-caste marriages but to destroy the religious notions on which caste was founded, and that Mr Sant Ram in return asked me to explain what he said was a novel point of view. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 785

Categorization

• DEFINE: Early crystallization of Ambedkar’s core thesis that reform must target the religious basis of caste, not merely social practices.