"In 1924 the Dalits of Vaikham in the state of Travancore launched a satyagraha to gain access to a local temple, or at least to use the road adjacent to the temple. Gandhi supported this mobilisation and went to Vaikham, but his dialogue with the local priests did not bear fruit. The latter rejected all his compromise proposals and their arguments prompted him to re-examine his position about Untouchability . . . He lost interest in the Vaikham movement and in various public meetings later declared himself to be a sanatanist, that is a follower of the Sanatana Dharma, the ‘eternal religion’ according to the orthodox Hindus."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christophe_Jaffrelot
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Christophe Jaffrelot
10 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Christophe Jaffrelot →
Related Quotes
"During that period, the French scholar Christophe Jafferlot was instrumental in providing significant amounts of atro…"
"The French researcher Christophe Jaffrelot, who is one of those experts who have uncritically swallowed quite a bit o…"
"In other words, Indian Muslims did not aim to blend into an Indian nation, but to fight within the Indian context alo…"
"Spokesmen for the Muslim elite invited the British to weigh quantitative criteria against qualitative aspects that co…"
"Violence broke out on 27 February in Godhra, a district headquarters in eastern Gujarat. Fifty-seven Hindus were kill…"
"For Phule, Jesus Christ epitomises equality and fraternity. He also regards him as the spokesman for the poor. . . . …"
"Jobless plebeians joined Bajrang Dal and other similar lumpen organisations and started to get a sense of identity by…"
"The Hindutva of Savarkar was conceived primarily as an ethnic community possessing a territory and sharing the same r…"
"Jaffrelot consistently portrays Hinduism and Hindu social leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, as caste-biased. Gandhi …"
"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."