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In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh caused a stir when he compared the system of untouchability to South Africa's era of apartheid.

India declared untouchability to be illegal in 1947 and has since enacted other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives.

ARTICLE 17 is a campaign that was launched by Video Volunteers on April 14 , 2012urging the National Commission for Schedule Castes (the government body that is constitutionally appointed to direct and implement safeguards against untouchability) to prosecute everyday cases of untouchability, not just those that result in actions that can be deemed illegal such as murder or assault.

He wrote a note for Nehru and his colleagues: "Abolish the salt tax; remember the Dandi march; unite Hindus and Muslims; remove untouchability; take to khadi".

"I can't devote myself entirely to untouchability and say, 'Neglect Hindu-Muslim unity or swaraj,' " he told a friend.

While Gandhi's tenets (a Muslim-Hindu alliance, an end to untouchability) remain largely unfulfilled, it is his role as a social reformer that most interests Lelyveld.

However, this aura of untouchability nearly came to an end when the cornermaster was himself cornered.

"As a child, I experienced untouchability at school where I was forced to sit and eat separately from the children of upper caste families," says 24-year old Neeru Rathod from Limbdi village in Gujarat.

India's Constitution, which was largely drafted by a Dalit, Bhimrao Ambedkar, outlawed the practice of physical untouchability, which relegated Dalits to the bottom of the social ladder and condemned them to low-status jobs, like leather work and barbering.

Nehru and other Congress members drifted further apart from Gandhi, who withdrew from Congress to concentrate on his Constructive Programme, which included his efforts to end untouchability in the Harijan movement.

In Madras, he met Swami Vishwananda, an individual at the heart of the nonviolent movement to eradicate untouchability ideologies.