Untouchable civil-rights struggles lacked the popular backing anti-colonial campaigns enjoyed

Evidence

Echoing a similar sentiment in 1927, when he led the civil rights struggle for Untouchables’ access to the Chavadar Tank in Mahad, Ambedkar said: “The satyagraha movement started by Gandhi was backed by the people as it was against foreign domination. Our struggle is against the mass of caste Hindus and naturally we have little support from outside.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1191

Categorization

• XREF: This asymmetry—nationalist consensus against the British but near-isolation for caste struggle—echoes the lonely position of caste-annihilationists that the reader is tracking across this book. — connects to: Ambedkar’s civil rights struggle lacked the mass support Gandhi’s had
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ambedkar’s civil rights struggle lacked the mass support Gandhi’s had

Broader Connections

• Ambedkar’s civil rights struggle lacked the mass support Gandhi’s had #exemplifies (0.92)