Explain the steps taken by gandhiji to eliminate the problem of untouchability
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The efforts by Mahatma Gandhi to integrate untouchables in the national movements is as follows:
1.He called the untouchables’ as harijan, or the children of God,
2.He organised satyagraha to secure them entry into temples, and access to publicwells, tanks, roads and schools.
3.He himself cleaned toilets to dignify the work of the bhangi (the sweepers), and persuaded upper castes to change their heart and give up ‘the sin of untouchability’.
4.At the Karachi session of the Congress, in March 1931, Gandhiji drafted the Resolution on
5.Fundamental Rights. Few sections of it was a a legal attack on the institution of untouchability. Section 4 declared that all “citizens are equal before law, irrespective of caste, creed or sex”.
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Gandhi was not only a freedom fighter but also a great social reformer. He took fallowing steps and practices to eliminate the problem of untouchability :
1. He termed the untouchables as harijans i.e sons of God and started weekly publication with the same name for their cause.
2. He launched satyagraha for the entry of untouchables into temple, access to public wells and other public places.
3. He adopted a harijan girl and married her to a brahaman boy.
4. He went to fast unto death against the separate electorates for untouchables.
5. He set up All India Anti-Untouchability League which later renamed the Harijan Sevak Sang. It worked for the upliftment of untouchables.
6. He regarded untouchability as a greater evil and opined that it is not possible to win freedom until untouchability is abolished.