Annihilation Of Caste

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Annihilation of Caste is an undelivered speech written in 1936 by B. R. Ambedkar. An Indian scholarly turned politician. He documented Annihilation of Caste for the 1936 conference of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore. After inspecting the speech's controversiality, conference organizers withdrew Ambedkar's invitation. He then self-published the work. The work is deemed a classic and is being re-evaluated stretch and again. In the paper, Ambedkar criticised the Hindu religion, its caste system and its holy texts which are male prevalent and spreading hatred and suppression of female interests. He disputed that inter-caste dining and inter-caste marriage is not enough to annihilate the caste system, but that "the real method of breaking up the Caste System was... to exterminate the religious notions upon which caste is established