This advocacy of interregional marriages was exceptional for its time when it would have been quite scandalous for a Bengali Brahmin to have married a Marathi Brahmin. But on the question of anulo?ma / pratilo?ma marriages, or intercaste marriages between Sudras and Brahmins, Savarkar did not engage in the kind of advocacy for such marriages as the one real route to the annihilation of caste as did Ambedkar but focused instead on demonstrating through a reading of epic literature that there are no genetic or blood-linked differences between the castes. The miscegenation that Ambedkar was recommending was, for Savarkar, already...