In the she’s had held that every Hindu “must follow the hereditary profession” and that “prohibition of intermarriage” between people of different Varian was “necessary for a rapid evolution of the soul. ” But later he gradually became “a social revolt-Zionist,” advocating intermarriage between Brahmins and Untouchables in order to dismantle the caste system “root and branch,” and acknowledging that ‘When all become stateless, monopoly of occupations would go. ” The changes were Dunedin part to the influence Of two opponents Of the caste yester whose integrity he held in high regard: Embarked and Grog.
His view of marriage beet. ‘en people Of different religious affiliations underwent a similar change * According to the classical Hindu Ordinances of Mann (O, 318), “If any man low in birth should, through greed, live by the coco- options of the exalted, the king should banish him at once, after depriving him of his property’ – and as for high-caste people: “Better ones own duties incomplete than those of another well performed, for he who lives by the duties of another alls from caste at once. Virtually prescient summary of Sandhog’s attitude, until his last years, toward marriage between people of different ecstasies in the following remarks of 1 919: (Citation 30] 1919: Interceding [and] intermarrying, hold, are not essential for the promotion of the spirit of democracy…. Taut as time goes forward and new necessities and occasions arise, the custom regarding… Interceding and intermarrying willowier cautious modifications or rearrangements. 38
In his ashram (his experimental model commune), Interceding faith Untouchables was a corollary to their acceptance in asses members. ;k But for a long time Gandhi took a different stance in regard to Hindu practice at large, and in this regard waist the early to mid-asses outspoken against Interceding, and intermarriage In the years following DADA the practice of caste and therefore intractability was intensified and applied to more groups. The untouchables are considered polluting and are therefore kept at a distance.
Their mere presence as well as their belongings are discarded or avoided. They are made to live separately and often cannot share such common village amenities as the well. The stigma of intractability is attributed to the traditional occupation of the sati and affects all members of that sati regardless of actually being engaged in that occupation or not.
