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Castes in India was basically a paper read by B. R. Ambedkar at a seminar in New York in May 1916. In the same year, he was awarded a PhD degree by Columbia University on this topic. Later, it was translated in many languages. In this treatise, Ambedkar wrote that “the superposition of endogamy on exogamy means the creation of caste. Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by several scholars and sociologists as incomplete by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system.
He was of the opinion that the endogamy (absence of intermarriage) is the only one that can be called the essence of caste and only characteristic that is peculiar to caste. In spite of the endogamy of the castes within them, exogamy is strictly observed and that there are more rigorous penalties for violating exogamy than there are for violating endogamy. Ambedkar treated class and caste as neighbours, saying that “a caste is an Enclosed Class”

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was India’s most popular leader of the Dalits. He was also the Union Law Minister of the Government of India during 1947–51. Although born in a Dalit Mahar family, he was awarded a scholarship by the Gaekwar (ruler) of Baroda and he studied at universities in the US, the UK, and Germany. Deeply pained at ill-treatment of Dalits, Ambedkar turned to legal practice and to teaching. n his early career, he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India’s independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India.
Ambedkar soon established his leadership among Dalits, founded several journals on their behalf, and succeeded in obtaining special representation for them in the legislative councils of the government. He took a leading part in the framing of the Indian Constitution, outlawing discrimination against untouchables, and skillfully helped to steer it through the assembly. In October 1956, he renounced Hinduism and became a Buddhist, together with about 200,000 fellow Dalits, at a ceremony in Nagpur.
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Castes in India
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Castes in India was basically a paper read by B. R. Ambedkar at a seminar in New York in May 1916. In the same year, he was awarded a PhD degree by Columbia University on this topic. Later, it was translated in many languages. In this treatise, Ambedkar wrote that “the superposition of endogamy on exogamy means the creation of caste. Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by several scholars and sociologists as incomplete by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system.
He was of the opinion that the endogamy (absence of intermarriage) is the only one that can be called the essence of caste and only characteristic that is peculiar to caste. In spite of the endogamy of the castes within them, exogamy is strictly observed and that there are more rigorous penalties for violating exogamy than there are for violating endogamy. Ambedkar treated class and caste as neighbours, saying that “a caste is an Enclosed Class”

About the Author

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was India’s most popular leader of the Dalits. He was also the Union Law Minister of the Government of India during 1947–51. Although born in a Dalit Mahar family, he was awarded a scholarship by the Gaekwar (ruler) of Baroda and he studied at universities in the US, the UK, and Germany. Deeply pained at ill-treatment of Dalits, Ambedkar turned to legal practice and to teaching. n his early career, he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India’s independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India.
Ambedkar soon established his leadership among Dalits, founded several journals on their behalf, and succeeded in obtaining special representation for them in the legislative councils of the government. He took a leading part in the framing of the Indian Constitution, outlawing discrimination against untouchables, and skillfully helped to steer it through the assembly. In October 1956, he renounced Hinduism and became a Buddhist, together with about 200,000 fellow Dalits, at a ceremony in Nagpur.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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English
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