Reformers narrowed caste to untouchability to avoid land and wealth redistribution.

Evidence

In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most Dalits lived and worked, in order to elide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistribution of wealth, Hindu reformers cleverly narrowed the question of caste to the issue of untouchability. They framed it as an erroneous religious and cultural practice that needed to be reformed. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 305

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s interest in how caste reform was framed and steered; parallels the Frankfurt School critique of ideology as redefinition that serves class interests.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 305