Gandhi never renounced his belief in the four-varna system

Evidence

Notwithstanding stories and anecdotes from Gandhi’s followers about Gandhi’s love for Untouchables and the inter-caste weddings he attended, in the ninety-eight volumes of his writing, Gandhi never decisively and categorically renounced his belief in chaturvarna, the system of four varnas. Though he was given to apologising and agonising publicly and privately over things like the occasional lapses in his control over his sexual desire, he never agonised over the extremely damaging things he had said and done on caste. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 98

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines chaturvarna as the four-varna system.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s theme of how the anti-caste movement had to contend with Gandhi’s equivocation.