Gandhi blamed girls’ purity, not boys’ conduct, for sexual harassment

Evidence

I sent the boys reputed to be mischievous and the innocent young girls to bathe in the same spot at the same time. … Was it a folly to let the children meet there for bath and yet to expect them to be innocent? — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 238

Categorization

• QUESTION: This episode invites further research into whether Ambedkar quotes Gandhi accurately and how Gandhi’s ashram experiments are treated in Gandhi historiography.
• XREF: connects to: Gandhi’s inclusion of women required their compliance with patriarchy — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 243; Gandhi’s purity politics derived directly from the caste system itself — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 231
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gandhi’s inclusion of women required their compliance with patriarchy — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 243; Gandhi’s purity politics derived directly from the caste system itself — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 231