Hindu unification movements aimed to integrate even Untouchables as a defensive bloc

Evidence

The Hindu Mahasabha launched the sangathan movement in the early 1920s in response to the Khilafat Movement (1918–24), which had Gandhi’s support, aimed at a pan-Islamic mobilisation to save the Ottoman Empire from dismemberment and to secure political reforms for India. The underlying logic of sangathan was to defend the Hindu community from so-called foreign forces through organisation and unification. It aimed to integrate the different sections of the Hindu community, including the Untouchables. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1097

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hindu nationalism treats all pre-Islamic Indian textuality as a unified Hinduism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1148; Hindu nationalism recruits diverse Bhakti movements into one essentialized spirituality — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1148