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Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit

Ideas of India

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Are You Threatening a Caste Structure?

The connection between endogmy and caste as an endogme is the systemic way of maintaining cast structures. The protests that took place were led by so called feminist factions, who paraded with posters saying, if reservation gets instituted, how will i find a husband? And we know historically that upper cast wome have worked actively to preserve power structures at home. It's not the men who are involved in gate keeping the kitchen and seeing who's going to come in the house. Upper class people married salid people. That has also not happened in india. There are many aspects of dulid discrimination that one can legislate against. But it is very difficult to legislate on

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