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How has B.R. Ambedkar identified the features of caste system? How is it different from the mainstream treatment of caste features?

  • UPSC 2016
  • Caste System

B. R. Ambedkar approached caste not as an ethnographer cataloguing traits but as its victim and critic, asking what caste does and to whom. His features are derived by elimination, and stand in deliberate opposition to the descriptive lists of Indology and structural anthropology.

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  • How he arrived at the features: the method of elimination
  • The features Ambedkar identifies
  • The mainstream treatment, and the contrast
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion

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