sep 30, 1932 - All India Harijan Sevak Sangh by Mahatma Gandhi 1932

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Harijan Sevak Sangh is a non-profit organisation founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1932 to eradicate untouchability in India, working for Harijan or Dalit people and upliftment of the Depressed Class of India

It was founded on September 30, 1932, in the wake of Gandhiji’s Epic Fast at Yervada Jail, Pune, resulting in the historic Poona Pact

A new weekly paper, the Harijan, was started


A Brief Background of the Organisation

The immediate historical background dates back to the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931 when Gandhiji opposed the segregation of the depressed classes (untouchables) of the Hindu community into a separate electoral group

He believed that the Britishers were willing to do so to create a split in the Hindu community and follow their sinister path of divide and rule
In Yervada Jail at Pune, Gandhi started his fast unto death on September 20 1932, which aroused the conscience of the Indians against the evil practice of untouchability.

Only after the assurance of Hindu leaders regarding the same, and approval of Poona Pact, he broke fast on September 24, 1932

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