Gandhi on Caste and Intermarriage

HOW GANDHI CAME TO BELIEVE CASTE MUST BE DISMANTLED BY INTERMARRIAGE by Mark Lindley: "Many a colleague of Gandhi's observed that he was greater than his writings would suggest. He himself said that they should be cremated with his body because there was a grave risk that people would swear by them.*1 [To find the footnote, search ahead for '*1'.] He also said, in 1945, that as a seeker after truth he had many times in his life found himself in the wrong and therefore changed.*2 In this article I would like to trace, mainly from evidence in the writings, how his ideas about varna and intermarriage changed gradually over the years. The biggest changes in this regard took place in his 60s and 70s, when most people's opinions become ossified. "