Gandhi launched the Harijan Sevak Sangh after his Poona Pact fallout with Ambedkar.

Evidence

Following his fallout with Ambedkar over the Communal Award of 1932 and the signing of the Poona Pact (see “A Note on the Poona Pact”, in this book, 357–76), M.K. Gandhi launched the Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1932 and an English weekly named Harijan in 1933. Ambedkar preferred the term Untouchable, with capitals, or the official term, Depressed Classes. He also preferred to address those within the varna fold as “caste Hindus” or savarnas, and sometimes as Touchables. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 794

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Terminology politics (Harijan vs Untouchable vs Depressed Classes) echoes the naming/signification battles the reader tracks across caste movements.

Related

• Gandhi’s term Harijan was paternalistic and derived from devotional sources (similarity 0.86)
• Gandhi’s renaming of Untouchables as Harijans re-anchored them to the Hindu faith. (similarity 0.83)
• Gandhi saw Untouchables only as victims, not agents needing awakening (similarity 0.82)
• The Poona Pact directly motivated Ambedkar’s attack on Hinduism itself in his major writings (similarity 0.81)
• Gandhi consistently insulted Untouchables and denied them political self-organization (similarity 0.80)
• Ambedkar personally signed the Poona Pact while Gandhi never did (similarity 0.79)
• Gandhi did not personally sign the Poona Pact (similarity 0.79)
• Gandhi and Patel blocked Untouchables from using law against caste violence. (similarity 0.78)
• Gandhi’s fast coerced Ambedkar into signing the Poona Pact. (similarity 0.78)