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M. K. Gandhi
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Gandhi’s 1936 defense of varna presents hereditary duties as equal. The dispute tests that argument; one exchange does not stand for his whole changing career.
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Guided course · Module 12 · Lesson 70
Freedom, caste and the terms of reform
Ambedkar challenges caste, and Gandhi defends varna as a set of inherited duties. Can equal praise for those duties answer Ambedkar’s demand for freedom?