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Hence, caste has not been an indicator of material deprivation, even during the early decades of the twentieth century.
But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.
Historically, the rich in each low caste emulated the customs and rituals of the upper castes, such as child marriage, the payment of dowries, and prevention of widows remarrying.
Usually a prosperous caste succeeded in raising its rank in the ritual hierarchy.
By using caste as a criterion in public policy, India’s government is effectively treating the rich and the poor equally, thereby conveying benefits to the former.
This helps co-opt the elite among the lower castes to the ruling coalition, and keeps the poor divided along caste lines.
Tocqueville focused on the consequences of the destruction of caste as a principle of social and political order.
In Tocqueville’s world, the destruction of caste was only partial.
He wrote for white men who knew their nationality, knew what caste membership meant, and knew the privileges such membership brought.
In our own time, the destruction of caste and caste privilege is taking another step forward.
Vemula was a Dalit – a member of what was once known as the “untouchables,” at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
In death, Vemula has achieved something he could not have imagined: He has become a national hero, his tragedy emblematic of the toxic durability of caste in India’s development narrative.
Unlike race, caste is invisible: a person’s face does not indicate it.
These quotas, or “reservations,” were granted based on people’s (presumably immutable) caste identities.
India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, had hoped that caste consciousness would wither away after independence.
Because caste was such a powerful source of self-identification, it proved to be a useful tool for political mobilization in India’s electoral democracy: When Indians cast their vote, they too often vote their caste.
They have asserted themselves in recent years by using the power of the ballot box to claim power on the basis of caste, religion, ethnicity, and other sectarian appeals.
Others are also historically marginalized from the social and political life of the nation, notably the Dalits, sometimes known as “untouchables,” who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.
The caste system and labor laws prevent an efficient labor market.
Nowhere is this more evident than in discussions about the origins and nature of India's caste system.
In the early 1980's, the predominant view on the Left was that the ancient Hindu caste system was a variant of European feudalism.
Where individuals were the central actors in the characteristic rituals of dominance and homage in European feudalism, in Hindu society the relationships were always defined in terms of caste groups.
Rudra assumed that caste existed in ancient India because, despite the unreliable historical record, the caste system is so manifest even today.
A school of revisionist historians and anthropologists argue that caste is an invention of the colonial British Raj.
This imagined order became reality when British census takers forced Indians to categorize themselves by caste.
But, as Susan Bayley, a "Subaltern" convert, puts it, "the initial premise is that even in parts of the Hindu heartland of Gangetic upper India, the institutions and beliefs which are often described as the elements of traditional caste were only taking shape as recently as the early 18 th century."
Aside from such examples, an economic rationale can also be provided for the origins of the Indian caste system as for European feudalism.
Serfdom, indenture, slavery, and the caste system all served this end.
How did ancient Indian princes tie labor to the land if neither feudalism nor caste existed?
Sonia Gandhi and her family should also take credit for putting at the forefront of their campaign a vision of an inclusive society, which rejects divisions on the basis of caste, ethnicity, language, and religion.
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