Gandhi’s views on varna shifted to near-abandonment by the mid-1940s.

Evidence

Anil Nauriya, however, makes the case (2006, 1835) that Gandhi’s views on varna changed in the mid-1940s and that he came to denounce varnashrama: “Gandhi incrementally unfurled a critique of the fourfold varna order, taking the concept of such an order in the end, by the mid-1940s, to vanishing point.” On such exercises in ‘cherry picking’, see Roy’s introduction to this volume. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1287

Categorization

• QUESTION: If Gandhi really moved toward abandoning varnashrama by the 1940s, what accounts for that late evolution, and did Ambedkar engage it?