The Untouchable (novel)

How does the poet believe that machines can change the fate of India's outcastes?

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He believes that one specific mechanical invention--the flush toilet--will come to India and make the work of sweepers obsolete. This will disrupt the system of inherited work among sweepers, and they will be able to take other jobs in a new economy made possible by other machines. He believes that this will end their status as outcastes.