The stand of the Mahatma justifying the caste system and its merits went completely tangential to Ambedkar’s philosophy and also the writings of Savarkar during the same period. While one must give the benefit of doubt to any political leader whose thoughts and philosophy change with time, preferably evolving for the better, Gandhi went a step back in 1925 by expressing his deep faith in the varna system but interpreting it in his own creative manner. In Gandhi’s justification for the varna, it is a cloak for the same caste system that he found appealing earlier.
