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What are the main features of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s views on annihilation of caste?

  • UPSC 2013
  • Caste System

B. R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste (1936) began as the presidential address to the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal, a Lahore body of caste-Hindu reformers who then withdrew the invitation because he proposed to say that Hinduism itself must go. That episode is the argument in miniature: reformers wanted caste ended without the religion that sanctions it,…

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  • Caste is an idea before it is an institution
  • Graded inequality — the feature that explains consent
  • Division of labourers, not division of labour
  • Endogamy is the mechanism; inter-marriage the remedy
  • What he rejected, and why
  • Evaluation
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