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Congress ignored the Dalits for a long because it feared that sanatanis, the conservative high-caste Hindus would offend their movement.

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The statement mentioned above is true.
The abstract concept of swaraj did not move all social groupings. One such group was the nation's 'untouchables,' who began calling themselves Dalit or oppressed in the 1930s. For too long, Congress disregarded the Dalits for fear of upsetting the satanic or orthodox high-caste Hindus. Finally, Mahatma Gandhi claimed that swaraj would not come for another hundred years unless untouchability was abolished. He dubbed the 'untouchables' Harijan, or the children of God, organised satyagraha to access temples, public wells, tanks, roads, and schools. He cleaned toilets to elevate the labour of the bhangi (the sweepers) and convinced upper castes to transform their hearts and abandon "the sin of untouchability."

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