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Explain the measures taken by Gandhiji to eliminate the problem of untouchability.  


The efforts by Mahatma Gandhi to integrate untouchables in the national movements is as follows:

1.He called the untouchables’ as harijan, or the children of God, 

 

2.He organised satyagraha to secure them entry into temples, and access to publicwells, tanks, roads and schools. 

 

3.He himself cleaned toilets to dignify the work of the bhangi (the sweepers), and persuaded upper castes to change their heart and give up ‘the sin of untouchability’.

 

4.At the  Karachi session of the Congress, in March 1931, Gandhiji drafted the Resolution on

 

5.Fundamental Rights. Few sections of it was a   a legal attack on the institution of untouchability. Section 4 declared that all “citizens are equal before law, irrespective of caste, creed or sex”.

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