Personal moral reform of high castes cannot substitute for changing Hindu social structure.

Evidence

The argument of the Mahatma that Hinduism would be tolerable if only many were to follow the example of the saints is fallacious for another reason. (In this connection, see the illuminating article on “Morality and the Social Structure” by H.N. Brailsford in the Aryan Path for April 1936. 8) By citing the names of such illustrious persons as Chaitanya, etc., what the Mahatma seems to me to suggest in its broadest and simplest form is that Hindu society can be made tolerable and even happy without any fundamental change in its structure, if all the high-caste Hindus can be persuaded to follow a high standard of morality in their dealings with the low-caste Hindus. I am totally opposed to this kind of ideology. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1240

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Individual charity cannot substitute for systemic justice. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 317; Reforming caste Hindus cannot advance Untouchable interests without alienating orthodox caste Hindus — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 791; Moral and cultural reform cannot proceed detached from economic reform — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Individual charity cannot substitute for systemic justice. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 317; Reforming caste Hindus cannot advance Untouchable interests without alienating orthodox caste Hindus — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 791; Moral and cultural reform cannot proceed detached from economic reform — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 616 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Reforming caste Hindus cannot advance Untouchable interests without alienating orthodox caste Hindus #complicates (0.72) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 791