Gandhi wanted the Vaikom movement kept within Hindu caste bounds

Evidence

See Joseph 2003, 166. Objecting to Sikhs running a langar (free, common kitchen) for the satyagrahis of Vaikom, Gandhi wrote in Young India (8 May 1924), “The Vaikom satyagraha is, I fear, crossing the limits. I do hope that the Sikh free kitchen will be withdrawn and that the movement will be confined to Hindus only” (CWMG 27, 362). — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 548

Categorization

• XREF: Further evidence of Gandhi confining anti-caste action within Hinduism — consolidates the editor’s running critique of Gandhi’s equivocation.