Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India : The 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change

By:

King, Mary Elizabeth

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford University Press New Delhi 2015Description: 344pISBN:

9780199452668

Subject(s):

Humanities and Social Science

DDC classification:

954.83035 KIN

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In the 1920s, in the south Indian village of Vykom, a nonviolent struggle sought to open to everyone the roads surrounding the Brahmin temple there. For centuries, any person or animal could walk those roads but not the so-called untouchable Hindus, whose use of the roads would "pollute" the high castes. From April 1924 to November 1925, Gandhi waged a satyagraha to put an end to this blatant discrimination.

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