Caste control is decentralized so that every oppressed group polices those below it

Evidence

It means there is a quotient of Brahminism in everybody, regardless of which caste they belong to. It is the ultimate means of control in which the concept of pollution and purity and the perpetration of social as well as physical violence—an inevitable part of administering an oppressive hierarchy—is not just outsourced, but implanted in everybody’s imagination, including those at the bottom of the hierarchy. It’s like an elaborate enforcement network in which everybody polices everybody else. The Unapproachable polices the Unseeable, the Malas resent the Madigas, the Madigas turn upon the Dakkalis who sit on the Rellis; the Vanniyars quarrel with the Paraiyars who in turn could beat up the Arundhatiyars. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 133

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fleshes out what graded inequality concretely means: internalized violence recruits even the bottom-most castes into policing those beneath them.