In which year was the temple entry movement started by Bhimrao Ambedkar?

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1) Context: By the mid-1920s Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was organizing Dalits to claim basic civil and religious rights denied by caste restrictions. The campaign for access to public places of worship formed a coherent movement under his leadership.

2) Leadership and mobilization: In 1927 Ambedkar consolidated his followers through public meetings, petitions and satyagraha methods to demand entry into temples and other public religious sites that had been closed to untouchables.

3) Pivotal actions in 1927: The year 1927 marks the first organized, sustained temple-entry agitation led by Ambedkar, combining legal pressure, nonviolent protest and community organization to challenge temple exclusion.

4) Immediate outcomes: The 1927 efforts established the pattern for subsequent temple-entry campaigns, gained public attention, and placed temple access squarely on the reform agenda, showing that 1927 was the inaugurating year of Ambedkar’s temple-entry movement.

5) Summary: Given Ambedkar’s initiation of coordinated temple-entry protests and mass mobilization in 1927, the correct year for the start of the temple entry movement under his leadership is 1927.

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