The Indian National Congress was once twinned with a Social Conference tackling caste reform.

Evidence

It was at one time recognised that without social efficiency, no permanent progress in the other fields of activity was possible; that owing to mischief wrought by evil customs, Hindu society was not in a state of efficiency; and that ceaseless efforts must be made to eradicate these evils. It was due to the recognition of this fact that the birth of the National Congress was accompanied by the foundation of the Social Conference. While the Congress was concerned with defining the weak points in the political organisation of the country, the Social Conference was engaged in removing the weak points in the social organisation of Hindu society. For some time the Congress and the Conference worked as two wings of one common activity, and they held their annual sessions in the same pandal. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 814

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s caste-annihilation thesis: the Congress began with social reform as a twin wing — evidence about how the social-reform thread started and was later severed.

Related

• The Indian National Congress and Social Conference were founded as twin movements (similarity 0.96)
• The National Congress and the Social Conference began as complementary wings (similarity 0.95)
• Tilak’s Congress faction drove social reform out and won the battle. (similarity 0.83)
• Congress politicians actively crushed the rival Social Conference movement through hostility (similarity 0.80)
• Congress leaders dismissed any connection between social and political reform (similarity 0.79)
• Congress’s social-reform arm faced staunch conservative opposition in 1887 (similarity 0.78)