Establishing worth-based chaturvarnya requires first dismantling the birth-based caste system.

Evidence

How are you going to compel people who have acquired a higher status based on birth, without reference to their worth, to vacate that status? How are you going to compel people to recognise the status due to a man, in accordance with his worth, who is occupying a lower status based on his birth? For this, you must first break up the caste system, in order to be able to establish the chaturvarnya system. How are you going to reduce the four thousand castes, based on birth, to the four varnas, based on worth? — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 915

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s stated purpose: shows Ambedkar setting the logical precondition for any caste annihilation - the caste system must be destroyed before worth-based ordering can begin.

Related

• Ambedkar exposed the practical impossibility of Gandhi’s worth-based varna idea (similarity 0.88)
• Varna by worth and caste by birth are antithetical systems, not synonyms (similarity 0.86)
• Caste and chaturvarnya rest on opposed principles and are distinct systems. (similarity 0.86)
• Abolishing caste requires destroying the sacred authority of shastras (similarity 0.86)
• Destroying caste means destroying shastra and Veda authority, a near-impossible task. (similarity 0.85)
• Social order change must precede all other progress (similarity 0.83)
• Arya Samajists proposed four value-based classes instead of four thousand castes (similarity 0.83)
• Ambedkar declared caste inequality must be rooted out, not merely untouchability (similarity 0.83)
• Chaturvarnya is impracticable, harmful, and a miserable failure. (similarity 0.83)
• Gandhi’s birth-to-worth varna reform is practically unenforceable and fails women (similarity 0.83)
• Only destroying shastra-based religion can break the caste system. (similarity 0.82)
• Caste can only be destroyed by attacking its religious foundations (similarity 0.82)
• Gandhi’s varna doctrine collapses into caste despite his claims (similarity 0.81)
• Hinduism’s pervasiveness makes renouncing caste seem impracticable to many (similarity 0.81)
• Guna-karma theory underwrites reformers’ defense of varnashrama without birth-based caste. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Caste’s reform requires destroying the divine authority of the shastras and Vedas #expands (0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 957