Gandhi told rebelling peasants to keep paying landlord rent

Evidence

To rouse people against injustice and yet control them and persuade them to his view of injustice, Gandhi had to make some complicated manoeuvres. In 1921, when peasants (kisans) rose against their Indian landlords (zamindars) in the United Provinces, Gandhi sent them a message: … Whilst we will not hesitate to advise kisans when the moment comes to suspend payment of taxes to Government, it is not contemplated that at any stage of non-cooperation we would seek to deprive the zamindars of their rent. The kisan movement must be confined to the improvement of the status of the kisans and the betterment of the relations between the zamindars and them. The kisans must be advised scrupulously to abide by the terms of their agreement with the zamindars, whether such agreement is written or inferred from custom. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 273

Categorization

• XREF: Directly strengthens the reader’s caste-annihilation thesis: it shows the nationalist movement containing class revolt, parallel to how it contained caste revolt.