![]() ![]() Ambedkar famously described caste as a system of “graded inequality” structured around an “ascending scale of reverence and a descending scale of contempt.”Īmbedkar and W. ![]() Ambedkar, had politics that were undoubtedly closer to King’s. Gandhi’s bitter opponent, the Dalit leader and constitutionalist B. King never fully grasped the paradox of going to India in pursuit of Gandhi, who was a social conservative on caste. He returned to the United States with a keen interest in India’s efforts to redress the historical discrimination of caste. He came to appreciate the force of the analogy, though he resisted it at first. ![]() But the visit exposed him to the violence of caste, beginning with Indian Dalits greeting King as an American Untouchable. described his month-long visit to India in February 1959 as a pilgrimage to the land where Gandhian nonviolence had achieved its greatest victory. ![]()
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