1 Louis Prakash, ‘Political Sociology of Dalit Assertion‘, p. 128.

2 Bama, ‘Kurukku‘, p. 24.

3 Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2013, https://idsn.org/key-issues/manual-scavenging/.

4 Arundhati Roy, ‘The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi‘, Haymarket Books, 2017’, p. 411.

5 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, ‘Navajivan‘, 18. Jan. 1925; CWMG 30,71.

6 Narendra Modi, ‘Karmayogi‘.

7 Farah Godrej, ‘Cosmopolitan Political Thought. Method, Practice, Discipline‘, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 89.

8 ‘Rig Veda‘, 10.90.

9 Brigitte Voykowitsch, ‘Dalits. Die Unberührbaren in Indien‘, Verlag Der Apfel, 2006, p. 16 (‘Dalits. The Untouchables in India‘; no English edition).

10 Romila Thapar, ‘The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300‘, p. 66f.

11 Gavin Flood, ‘An Introduction to Hinduism‘, Cambridge University Press, 1996’, p. 219, 220.

12 Axel Michaels, ‘Der Hinduismus: Geschichte und Gegenwart‘, C. H. Beck, 1998, p. 205f (citations from the German edition; English edition: ‘Hinduism: History and Present’, Princeton University Press, 2003).

13 Arundhati Roy, ‘The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi‘, p. 1443, p. 1457.

14 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, BAWS 1, p. 256.

15 Arjun Dangle, ed. 1992, p. 231-3.

16 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, CWMG 16, p. 126-8.

17 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, BAWS 9, p. 202.

18 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, zit. in BAWS 9, p. 68.

19 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, BAWS 9, p. 259.

20 Christopher Queen, ‘Engaged Buddhism. Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia‘, State University New York, p. 47.

21 Christopher Queen, ‘Engaged Buddhism. Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia‘, p. 59.

22 Arundhati Roy, ‘The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi‘, p. 653.

23 Arundhati Roy, ‘The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi‘, p. 11f.

24 Brigitte Voykowitsch, ‘DalitsDie Unberührbaren in Indien‘, p. 178f (‘Dalits. The Untouchables in India‘; no English edition).