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What does Dr. B.R Ambedkar mean by the concept of ‘Annihilation of Caste’?

  • UPSC 2021
  • Caste System

B. R. Ambedkar chose the word annihilation deliberately. In Annihilation of Caste (1936) — the presidential address the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal of Lahore cancelled rather than hear — he argues that caste cannot be reformed, softened or outgrown. It must be destroyed as an idea, because caste is "a notion, a state of the mind".

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  • Caste as graded inequality, not a division of labour
  • Why reform, and economic change, cannot do it
  • The remedy: endogamy, scripture, fraternity
  • Conclusion

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