Eternalist claims about caste contradict change as the law of life

Evidence

Fourthly, the Hindus must consider whether the time has not come for them to recognise that there is nothing fixed, nothing eternal, nothing sanatan; that everything is changing, that change is the law of life for individuals as well as for society. In a changing society, there must be a constant revolution of old values; and the Hindus must realise that if there must be standards to measure the acts of men, there must also be a readiness to revise those standards. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1023

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: The word ‘sanatan’ directly targets the sanatan dharma defense of caste that Gandhi and orthodox Hindus deployed; connects to the reader’s knowledge of Indian political history.
• DEFINE: Explicitly names sanatan as meaning fixed/eternal, then denies that property to caste.

Related

• Ambedkar rejected the sanatan doctrine of fixed eternal social standards (similarity 0.87)
• Sanatan dharm denotes an eternal, reform-free orthodoxy that English terms fail to capture (similarity 0.79)
• Hinduism’s pervasiveness makes renouncing caste seem impracticable to many (similarity 0.78)
• Sanatan dharm denotes an unreformed eternal Hinduism beyond the terms Hindu and Hinduism (similarity 0.78)