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This paper wants to draw a comparison between Gandhi & Ambedkar on Caste issues with particular focus to manual scavenging in India. Firstly it deals the approach of Gandhi who known in and the outside of India as a reformer worked against untouchability and caste system in India. For instance, he called Untouchables "Harijans" (children of God) although that term is now considered patronising and the term Dalit (oppressed) is the more commonly used for these people.
“There is no doubt that Gandhi wants that untouchability to reform but he, at the same time, he was a strong supporter of the caste system. Supporting the caste system, Gandhi believes that caste has saved Hinduism from disintegration & to destroy the caste system and adopt the Western European social network means that Hindus must give up the principle of hereditary occupation, which is the soul of the caste system”[i].
[i] https://caste-system-india.blogspot.com/