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Download Solution PDFIn which year did Ambedkar start a temple entry movement?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is 1927.
Key Points
- Temple Entry Movement was founded by Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar in 1927.
- It was a movement to allow lower caste people to enter temples.
- Untouchables were treated as inferior human beings, they were not allowed entry inside the temples, they could not bathe in ponds used by upper-caste people and they could not use the wells used by upper-caste people.
- A temple entry movement was started by Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1927.
- This temple entry movement saw the participation of people from the Mahar Caste.
- Between 1927 and 1935, Dr B.R. Ambedkar led three temple entry movements.
- The objective of the temple entry movement led by Dr B.R. Ambedkar was to expose the caste prejudices that existed within Indian society.
- Dr B.R. Ambedkar was born into a Mahar family.
- Ambedkar had faced caste discrimination right from his childhood.
- Ambedkar was not allowed to drink water from the taps that were used by upper-caste children.
- After finishing his higher education in the US, Ambedkar returned to India in 1919 and extensively wrote about caste-based discrimination in Indian society.
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