SOCIAL MOVEMENT IN ORISSA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TEMPLE ENTRY MOVEMENT (1930 – 1938)
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SOCIAL MOVEMENT, SPECIAL REFERENCEAbstract
Gandhi believed that the temple was in the core of everyday life for millions of Hindus whether they be caste Hindus or untouchables. His vision therefore was of equal access to temples in a system with no high and no low. The caste Hindus had threaded the untouchables badly by excluding them and Gandhi welcomed them into a common religious arena, the temple. Gandhi wanted for achieving equality when untouchables would become equals. Gandhi wrote an article in the Hindu of what a perfect temple was. The perfect temple would be one where the priest was a devoted man of God who had the least of needs and personal ties. His sole concern would be the welfare of his people. The temple would have to be accessible to the untouchables and other poor in clean surroundings and without discrimination
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