Caste Hindu reformers sought assimilation without equality for Untouchables

Evidence

Conservative Hindu organisations like the Hindu Mahasabha took the task beyond rhetoric, and against their own deeply held beliefs and practice began to proselytise energetically against untouchability. Untouchables had to be prevented from defecting. They had to be assimilated, their proteins broken down. They had to be brought into the Big House, but kept in the servants’ quarters. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 152

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘servants’ quarters’ phrasing parallels debates about racial integration in the US — inclusion on segregated terms.