After the Chawdar Tank March, and the upper-caste purification ritual, caste Hindus filed an injunction to close the tank once again to Dalits. This led Ambedkar to lose faith in the upper-caste Hindus who he had hoped would join the Dalits in their struggle for their rights. So at the end of the year, on 25 December 1927, he announced the second ‘Mahad Satyagraha’ conference for Dalit rights. Far more aggressive and provocative than its first version, the second Mahad conference called for ‘absolute equality’ for Dalits and had over 3,000 Dalit ‘satyagrahis’ in attendance. At the conference,
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