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How do caste and class come together in creating the category of extreme poor?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Caste System

The extreme poor are not simply the lowest income decile; they are a socially manufactured category in which economic dispossession and ritual stigma compound one another. B. R. Ambedkar, in Annihilation of Caste (1936), caught the mechanism when he described caste as a division of labourers rather than a division of labour — the worker,…

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  • Caste allocates assets, class reproduces the allocation
  • Stigmatised work and cumulative deprivation
  • Why this is intersection, not addition
  • Conclusion

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