Mahatma Gandhi was against separate electorates for the Depressed Cla…

The correct answer is Option (4) → According to Gandhi, separate electorates to the “Untouchables” would ensure their bondage

Option (1) Depressed class people were against Mahatma Gandhi — Incorrect. Gandhi’s argument at the Round Table Conference was not about any opposition to himself. He spoke of what separate electorates would do to the “Untouchables”.

Option (2) Gandhi called them Harijan — Incorrect. What Gandhi called them was not his reason. His reason was that separate electorates would perpetuate the stigma of untouchability.

Option (3) Gandhi and Ambedkar proposed two different political ideologies — Incorrect. This option names no reason at all. Gandhi’s stated reason was about the “Untouchables” themselves: what was needed, he said, was the destruction of “Untouchability”, not separate electorates.

Option (4) According to Gandhi, separate electorates to the “Untouchables” would ensure their bondage — Correct. Gandhi argued that separate electorates to the “Untouchables” will ensure them bondage in perpetuity, since they would keep the “Untouchables” as “Untouchables” for ever.