This Naamghar in Assam’s Jorhat marked an epochal moment in Mahatma Gandhi’s fight against untouchability | North East India News, The Indian Express

This Naamghar in Assam’s Jorhat marked an epochal moment in Mahatma Gandhi’s fight against untouchability | North East India News, The Indian Express

Written by Tora Agarwala |Guwahati |Updated: October 2, 2019 12:54:23 pm

This Naamghar in Assam’s Jorhat marked an epochal moment in Mahatma Gandhi’s fight against untouchability

In 1934, Mahatma Gandhi ceremonially threw open the doors of a Brahmin family’s Naamghar to the Harijans — a landmark development in his fight to abolish untouchability.

XThe Naamghar as it stands today. (Picture courtesy: Apurba Sharma)

The Naamghar, located on a leafy lane of the Sabaibandha locality in Upper Assam’s Jorhat town, is smaller than most. That it’s special — historical even — is a little-known tale, an episode often forgotten. But those who know, know.