Gandhi championed separate electorates for Muslims and Sikhs but refused them for Untouchables.

Evidence

At the Round Table Conference, Gandhi and Ambedkar clashed, both claiming that they were the real representatives of the Untouchables. The conference went on for weeks. Gandhi eventually agreed to separate electorates for Muslims and Sikhs, but would not countenance Ambedkar’s argument for a separate electorate for Untouchables. He resorted to his usual rhetoric: “I would far rather that Hinduism died than that Untouchability lived.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 383

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the political-strategy material in Chapter 19’s law merchant and reputation arguments about how group power is structured.