Caste is insidious and often invisible in its machinations. But it can also be made into a spectacle. This is why when Dalit people transgress the bounds that social dogma has drawn for them, the response is swift and brutal — a warning to other people to respect caste orthodoxy. Punishments meted out in cases […]
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In his last speech before the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, BR Ambedkar warned the incoming lawmakers of a still infant Republic. He reminded them that the topsoil of democracy in India rested on a bed of deep inequity and, therefore, political democracy would never be enough in the absence of social democracy — […]