Gandhi endorsed the caste system in a 1921 Gujarati article

Evidence

Then there is his endorsement of the caste system in 1921 in Navajivan. It is translated from Gujarati by Ambedkar (who suggested more than once that Gandhi “deceived” people, and that his writings in English and Gujarati could be productively compared): Caste is another name for control. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 94

Categorization

• XREF: Ambedkar’s claim that Gandhi deceived by writing differently in Gujarati than in English anticipates modern work on rhetorical code-switching across audience. — connects to: Gandhi explicitly endorsed the caste system as control in 1921; Gandhi defended caste as Indian society’s genius for self-organisation against oppression. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 48; Gandhi defended caste as founded on an eternal hereditary principle (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gandhi explicitly endorsed the caste system as control in 1921; Gandhi defended caste as Indian society’s genius for self-organisation against oppression. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 48; Gandhi defended caste as founded on an eternal hereditary principle (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Gandhi explicitly endorsed the caste system as control in 1921 #corroborates (0.95)