September 1932, Gandhi went on fast in Puné’s Jail in opposition to separate electorates for Depressed Classes (which Ambedkar supported). Gandhi’s health began to fail, Ambedkar was to yield, signing a compromise agreement the number of seats in legislatures reserved the Depressed Classes, but as part of a joint of all Hindus. After the signing of this ‘Poona Gandhi increasingly referred to the untouchables ‘Harijans’, a term meaning ‘Children of God’. He it less pejorative than ‘Untouchable’, less than the colonial coinage, ‘Depressed and more indigenous-sounding than his own alternative, ‘suppressed classes’. term ‘Harijan’ had first been used by the medieval Narsinh Mehta, whom Gandhi had long (Mehta’s ‘Vaishnava Jana To’ was one of his hymns). In adopting this term for the Classes, Gandhi remarked: ‘Not that the of name brings about any change of status, but may at least be spared the use of a term which is one of reproach’. edited a weekly newspaper named Young India. 1933 he renamed this weekly Harijan, because he that the campaign to abolish untouchability as vital as winning political freedom. before he went on fast in September 1932, had formed an ‘Anti-Untouchability League’, the responsibility for running it in the hands of of his close associates, the industrialist G. D. Birla the social worker A. V. Thakkar. After the fast had and the Poona Pact was signed, this was renamed the Harijan Sewak Sangh, we may translate into English as the ‘Servants of Society’. option (a) is the correct answer.