AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr Ambedkar was bom into a Mahar family. As a child he experienced what caste prejudice meant in everyday life. In school he was forced to sit outside the classroom on the ground. He was not even allowed to drink water from taps that upper-caste children used.

Detailed explanation-2: -Annihilation of Caste is an account of the belief that social reform has to take precedence over political and religious reform, providing instances of the tyranny practised by upper-caste Hindus on the untouchable community of India.

Detailed explanation-3: -He worked to ensure the ‘untouchables’ were allowed to enter religious places as well as draw water from public wells. He also led many Dalits to burn copies of Manusmriti, which justifies caste-based discrimination and untouchability, on 25 December 1927.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Untouchability is not a simple matter, ” Ambedkar said in a speech in 1927. “It is the mother of all our poverty and lowliness and it has brought us to the abject state we are in today… The inequality inherent in the four-castes system must be rooted out.”