Ambedkar borrowed the biological term endosmosis as a political metaphor for group interaction

Evidence

It was while he was there, under the tutelage of John Dewey (of ‘Deweyan liberalism’ fame), Edwin Seligman, James Shotwell, James Harvey Robinson and A.A. Goldenweiser, that he wrote his original, path-breaking paper on caste, “Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development”, in which he argued that caste could not be equated with either race or class, but was a unique social category in itself—an enclosed, endogamous class. When he wrote it, Ambedkar was only twenty-five years old. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297; Ambedkar defined caste as an endogamous enclosed class in 1916; the MOC “The Grammar of Social Form: How Trust, Money, and Power Give Society Its Shape”

Related

• Ambedkar defined caste as an endogamous enclosed class in 1916 (similarity 0.94)
• Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class (similarity 0.88)
• Ambedkar formulated caste as a unique enclosed endogamous class under Dewey’s tutelage. (similarity 0.85)
• Endosmosis was borrowed from biology to describe group interaction (similarity 0.81)
• Sub-castes prove caste cannot rest on racial purity. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class #responds-to (0.50) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297
• Ambedkar defined caste as an endogamous enclosed class in 1916 #responds-to (0.50)