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Annihilation of Caste is an undelivered speech written by B. R. Ambedkar in 1936. The speech was intended to be delivered at an anti-caste convention held in Lahore by Hindu reformers. However, upon reviewing the written speech, the conference organizers deemed it too controversial, and subsequently revoked Ambedkar's invitation to the conference.
Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [5] John Nesfield, H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system. Senart's "idea of pollution" is a characteristic of caste in so far as caste has a religious flavour.
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Gopal Baba Walangkar was born into a family of Mahar caste [1] around 1840 at Ravdul, near Mahad in what is now Raigad district, Maharashtra.He was related to Ramabai, who in 1906 married the polymathic social reformer, B. R. Ambedkar.
Iyothee Thass possessed deep knowledge in Tamil, Siddha medicine and philosophy, and literary knowledge in languages such as English, Sanskrit and Pali. [ 3 ] Iyothee Thass was born Kathavarayan on 20 May 1845 [ 4 ] in Thousand Lights , a neighbourhood in Madras (now Chennai), and later migrated to the Nilgiris district .
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Satyanarayana earned an M.A. and M.Phil from the University of Hyderabad, and his Ph.D. from English and Foreign Languages University.. Active in the Andhra student movement during the 1990s, he is the founder-general secretary of Kula Nirmoolana Porata Samiti (Forum for Caste Annihilation).
Periyar encouraged inter-caste marriages in order to combat the superstitions of the caste system practiced in India. He pointed out that a marriage is a contract between a young woman and a young man and it is not a function for the parents to get involved in for a reason or another.