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| In the 1920s Gandhi rejected unequivocally the caste-based principle of untouchability but still upheld the Hindu varna precept of four inherited kinds of vocations (priest/ sage, soldier/administrator, merchant/landowner, servant/ laborer). In addition, there is ample documentation of covert and overt instances of untouchability, both in rural and urban India. The world knows that it led to the horrors of the Holocaust, the shame of slavery, and the crime of untouchability. |
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