Sapna Indu Pillai - Week 3

                                               Weekly Summary – Week 3 


                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                     Sapna Indu Pillai 
                                                                                                                     BALLB Sec – C 
                                                                                                                     2016111



This week ill be responding to “Understanding Caste” by Gail Omvedt. In Chapter 11 of this book the author delves into how Adivasi tribes entered the Dalit movement and had multiple riots. There is also mention of the upper caste claiming that Adivasi Dalits were rakshasas which shows us to what extent they used religion as a tool to create hatred and fear of the lower castes to ensure they don’t threaten the existing system. There is also a specific emphasis also how by the 1980s there was an overlapping of multiple movements. Other social movements such as the farmer movements and women’s movements recognised the commonality between their aims as movement being Hinduism and the establishment of power and structural social capital in the name of Hinduism and decided to in some ways merge as movements. This brings up a great understanding of intersectionality. It shows us how before a Dalit woman would probably have to choose to fight against women’s oppression or caste oppression but within the 1980’s recognition of intersectionality’s were made possible and a woman could now fight against bother casteism and sexism and also be recognised as an individual that suffers from both kinds of oppression and how complex the overlapping of oppression not just legally but also socially is. 

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