B. R. Ambedkar and supporters drank water from a public tank from which oppressed-caste people had been excluded. Collective action turned an abstract right into a claim to everyday resources. Caste oppression was a distinct hierarchy, but contesting it challenged inherited institutional claims of superiority in colonial-era India.
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The campaign confronted caste-based denial of common resources. Comparing it with racism should preserve the distinct history of caste oppression.
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