Gandhi and Patel blocked Untouchables from using law against caste violence.

Evidence

With all the knowledge of tyranny and oppression practised by the caste Hindus of Kavitha against the Untouchables all that Mr Gandhi felt like doing was to advise the Untouchables to leave the village. He did not even suggest that the miscreants should be hauled up before a court of law. His henchman, Mr Vallabhbhai Patel, played a part which was still more strange. He had gone to Kavitha to persuade the caste Hindus not to molest the Untouchables. But they did not even give him a hearing. Yet this very man was opposed to the Untouchables hauling them up in a court of law and getting them punished. The Untouchables filed the complaint notwithstanding his opposition. But he ultimately forced them to withdraw the complaint on the caste Hindus making some kind of a show of an understanding not to molest, an undertaking, which the Untouchables can never enforce. The result was that the Untouchables suffered and their tyrants escaped with the aid of Mr Gandhi’s friend, Mr Vallabhbhai Patel. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1041

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader historical debate over Gandhi’s stance on caste and Untouchability — echoes themes in the Poona Pact account and Ambedkar’s lifelong critique of Gandhian Congress leadership. — connects to: Gandhi’s hunger strike forced Untouchables to give up separate electorates.; Gandhi accepted separate electorates for Muslims but not for Untouchables.; Gandhi consistently insulted Untouchables and denied them political self-organization (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1041

Broader Connections

• Gandhi’s hunger strike forced Untouchables to give up separate electorates. #corroborates (0.80)
• Gandhi accepted separate electorates for Muslims but not for Untouchables. #expands (0.70)
• The Poona Pact stripped Untouchables of separate electorates and the double vote #expands (0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1309
• Gandhi consistently insulted Untouchables and denied them political self-organization #corroborates (0.60)