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Untouchables, from around 1930s, had begun to call themselves dalits or oppressed. For a long time, the Congress had ignored the dalits, for fear of offending the sanatanis, the conservative high-caste Hindus. But Mahatma Gandhi declared that swaraj would not come even after hundred years if un touch ability was not eliminated. He called the untouchables 'harijans' or the children of God, organised Satyagraha to secure their entry into temples and access to public wells, tanks, roads and schools. He himself cleaned toilets to dignify the work of bhangi (scavenger) and persuaded upper castes to change their heart and give up 'the sin of un touch ability'.
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