Untouchable anticaste thought predates Ambedkar by decades in low-caste schools.

Evidence

Ambedkar was only echoing what a fourteen-year-old Untouchable Mang girl, Muktabai Salve, had said long ago. She was a student in the school for Untouchable children that Jotiba and Savitri Phule ran in Poona. In 1855, she said, “Let that religion, where only one person is privileged and the rest are deprived, perish from the earth and let it never enter our minds to be proud of such a religion.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 407

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s knowledge of the caste-annihilation idea as having a genealogy beyond Ambedkar alone.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the full context of Muktabai Salve and the Phule school curriculum that produced such a critique by 1855.