He met groups of people in private and articulated his ideas on the ‘Seven shackles of Hindu society’: Vedokta bandi (denial of access to Vedic literature to non-Brahmins), Vyavasaya bandi (choice of profession by merit and not heredity), Sparsha bandi (untouchability), Samudra bandi (barring crossing the seas fearing loss of caste), Shuddhi bandi (denial of reconversions to Hinduism), Roti bandi (denouncement of inter-caste dining) and Beti bandi (denial of inter-caste marriage).
