B. R. Ambedkar · Politics
Ambedkar's radical claim that caste is not a division of labour but a division of labourers - a hierarchy of graded inequality rooted in religion and mind - and that it cannot be reformed, only abolished, by destroying its scriptural sanction.
You learned that Ambedkar analyzed caste as ‘graded inequality’ (a hierarchy, not mere difference), that he distinguished it from a division of labour by calling it a division of labourers, that he traced its persistence to religious sanction so that it is a ‘notion, a state of the mind,’ and t…
Leads to the Dalit Buddhist movement.
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