INDIAN CASTES
ENDEAVOUR to remove system
EMANCIPATION OF “UNTOUCHABLES; ... •
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 12 noon). CALCUTTA, February 19
A Pill is now before the Legislative Assembly seeking to remove social bans on the ' f‘un tone liable” cast, and to grant them the right to worship in the temples, hitherto jeserved exclusively for the Hindu orthodox worshippers. It is creating a tremendous upheaval in Hinduism throughout India, and the Gandhi reform movement, win oil apepared to he declining a few months ago, has vigorously revived and threatens to thrust the constitutional economic question into the background.
As far as Hindu society is concerned, Doctor Ambedkar, leader of tlie “un'toiicliables,” declares that lie is out to destroy the caste question. He bitterly attacks the orthodox “concession” to “untouchables” of the right to enter temples, and threatens that he and his followers will either reconstruct Hinduism or find another religion. The majority of orthodox Hindus, who hitherto favoured the partial abolition of the caste system, are alarmed by Dr. Ambedkar’s declaration. He is suddenly 1 revealed as a fighting labour leader with a potential host of 40,000,000 uiiemancipated serfs behind 'him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1933, Page 6
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