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B. R. Ambedkar — Annihilation of Caste

B. R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (1936), Section 4. Digitized full text, Columbia University (Mapping Modernity project).

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Ambedkar’s undelivered 1936 presidential address prepared for the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal, Lahore. The epigraph of the Out-Caste Doctrine — “The Caste System is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers.” — is verbatim from Section 4 of this text, verified character-for-character against the Columbia digitized edition (receipt-gate, 2026-07-17). Trust tier: primary.

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B. R. Ambedkar
Published
1936
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2026-07-17

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