Ambedkar, having been let down during the Kala Ram Temple Satyagraha, knew that no upper castes would willingly vote to allow Dalits into temples. Dalits had already ‘tested the Hindu mind’ and discovered that they were not wanted, so he argued that Dalits didn’t need to enter places which banned them, any more than Indians needed to enter Europeans-only places that declared ‘Indians and Dogs not allowed’.
