Gandhi belonged to a long line of privileged-caste reformers

Evidence

Gandhi, a Vaishya, born into a Gujarati Bania family, was the latest in a long tradition of privileged-caste Hindu reformers and their organisations—Raja Ram Mohan Roy who founded the Brahmo Samaj in 1828; Swami Dayananda Saraswati who founded the Arya Samaj in 1875; Swami Vivekananda who established the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897 and a host of other, more contemporary reformist organisations. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 85