Gandhi campaigned from prison for racial segregation of Indian inmates.

Evidence

I have resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs or others. We cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us. Moreover those who wish to sleep in the same room as them have ulterior motives for doing so. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 214

Categorization

• XREF: Gandhi’s demand for separate prisoners parallels the very logic of caste separation Ambedkar would later attack — a powerful irony for the reader’s caste-annihilation theme.