Gandhi celebrated manual scavenging as the ‘most honourable occupation’ while Ambedkar advocated the abolition of the practice. Read an excerpt from Gita Ramaswamy’s India Stinking: Mohandas Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar on Manual Scavenging. (Links to a PDF file, right-click and ‘Save As’ to download)
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