Caste discrimination persists inside non-Hindu religious communities.

Evidence

Ambedkar had learned from experience that Christianity, Sikhism, Islam and Zoroastrianism were not impervious to caste discrimination. In 1934, he had a reprise of his old experiences. He was visiting the Daulatabad fort, in the princely state of Hyderabad, with a group of friends and co-workers. It was the month of Ramzan. Dusty and tired from their journey, Ambedkar and his friends stopped to drink water and wash their faces from a public tank. They were surrounded by a mob of angry Muslims calling them ‘Dheds’ (a derogatory term for Untouchables). They were abused, nearly assaulted and prevented from touching the water. “This will show,” Ambedkar writes in his Autobiographical Notes, “that a person who is Untouchable to a Hindu, is also Untouchable to a Mohammedan.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 408

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the common claim that conversion to Islam or Christianity would escape caste — key to why conversion alone was never Ambedkar’s simple answer. — connects to: Caste oppression operates within India’s Muslim community as well — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 475
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 408