How did mahatma Gandhi try to remove untouchability
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he used peace full and protest and no co-operation methods
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Around 1930s, the untouchables began to call themselves Dalits .
● The Congress ignored Dalits’ demands for fear of offending
Sanatanis, the conservative high-caste Hindus.
● Gandhiji declared Swaraj would not come for 100 years if
untouchability is not eliminated.
● He called them ‘ Harijans ’, he children of God.
● He organized Satyagraha to secure them into temples, access to public
wells, tanks, roads, schools etc.
● Cleaned toilets to dignify the work of Bhangi.
● Persuaded upper castes to give up the sin of untouchability.
● But when Dalits demanded separate electorates, Gandhiji
remarked that it would slow down the process of their integration into
society and began fast-unto-death.
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