Ambedkar wrote the speech as an essay under the title "Annihilation of Caste" and sent in advance to the organisers in Lahore for printing and distribution. Ambedkar to deliver a speech on the caste system in India at their annual conference in 1936. In a letter dated 12 December 1935, the secretary of the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (Society for the Break Up of Caste system), an anti-caste Hindu reformist group organisation based in Lahore, invited B. The work is considered a classic and is being re-evaluated time and again. After reviewing the speech's controversiality, conference organizers revoked Ambedkar's invitation. He wrote Annihilation of Caste for the 1936 meeting of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore. Ambedkar, an Indian academic turned politician. Now this gradation, this scaling of castes, makes it impossible to organize a common front against the Caste System.Annihilation of Caste is an undelivered speech written in 1936 by B. The higher the grade of a caste, the greater the number of these rights, and the lower the grade, the lesser their number. In its second aspect, it places these communities in a graded order one above the other in social status.Įach caste takes its pride and its consolation in the fact that in the scale of castes it is above some other caste.Īs an outward mark of this-gradation, there is also a gradation of social and religious rights technically spoken of Ashtadhikaras and Sanskaras. In one of its aspects, it divides men into separate communities. The second reason, why I say the task is impossible, will be clear if you will bear in mind that the Caste System has two aspects.
When such an intellectual class, which holds the rest of the community in its grip, is opposed to the reform of Caste, the chances of success in a movement for the break-up of the Caste System appear to be very, very remote. Annihilation Of Caste With Replay To Mahatma Gandhi
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