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Brahmanical patriarchy: How Ambedkar explained the links between caste and violence against women
He drew attention to the inferior status of women within caste groups.
by Sharmila Rege
Published 13 hours ago
Babasaheb Ambedkar with women delegates of the Scheduled Caste Federation on July 8, 1942 in Nagpur
“Castes In India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development”, a research paper in which Ambedkar seeks to establish caste as a product of sustained endogamy, was written in 1916 at Columbia University for the anthropology seminar of Dr AA Goldenweiser and eventually published in the Indian Antiquaryin 1917. In 1913, assisted by a scholarship from Maharaja Sayaji Rao of Baroda, Ambedkar had enrolled as a student in the faculty of political science at Columbia University, United States. In this essay, Ambedkar critiques the essentialisation of caste and seeks to establish its knowability – as a theoretical and practical problem. Specifically, he seeks to understand intermarriage restrictions, social relations, and the re-rooting of caste structure in new spaces. In contrast to the anthropological equation of caste to race in his time, Ambedkar counted cultural homogeneity, notwithstanding racial difference, among India’s distinctions as a nation. So the problem, as it were, was to explain exact own’: Mohammed Shami overshoots BCCI limit, bowls 26 overs for Bengal in Ranji Trophy
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