Scriptures provided actual sanction for caste-based inhuman conduct

Evidence

After all, one can only judge a system or an institution by the conduct of its representatives. What is more, Dr Ambedkar found that the vast majority of savarna Hindus had not only conducted themselves inhumanly against those of their fellow religionists whom they classed as Untouchables, but they had based their conduct on the authority of their scriptures, and when he began to search them he had found ample warrant for their beliefs in untouchability and all its implications. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1195

Categorization

• XREF: The three-fold indictment structure—inhuman conduct, its unabashed justification, and scriptural warrant—echoes the core thesis Ambedkar develops in Annihilation of Caste.