Gandhi’s founding text omitted caste and untouchability entirely

Evidence

Other than the vague allusion to the idea of people following an ancestral occupation or trade that was rewarded by a “regulation wage”, caste is absent in Gandhi’s reverie. Though Gandhi later insisted that untouchability had troubled him since he was a boy, in Hind Swaraj he makes absolutely no mention of it. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 255

Categorization

• QUESTION: What did the earliest Gandhi biographies and his own autobiography say about when he first confronted untouchability, versus what Hind Swaraj omits?
• XREF: Connects to Ambedkar’s broader charge that Gandhi’s anti-untouchability stance was late and politically opportunistic rather than lifelong conviction. — connects to: Gandhi erased cities from Indian history to posit a classless idyllic village past — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1065