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Discuss Whitehead’s contention that caste has potential to displace class and colonial contradiction.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Caste System

Judith Whitehead, whose work on colonial India runs from the Sociological Bulletin essay 'Bodies of Evidence, Bodies of Rule' (1996) on the Ilbert Bill and the age-of-consent controversy to her writing on property and dispossession, reads caste as a category worked upon by colonial power. The contention states that claim at its strongest: caste can…

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  • What displacement means
  • How colonial rule hardened caste into an administrative fact
  • Where the contention holds
  • The counter-case
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