Caste functions as a system of control over enjoyment

Evidence

Caste is another name for control. Caste puts a limit on enjoyment. Caste does not allow a person to transgress caste limits in pursuit of his enjoyment. That is the meaning of such caste restrictions as inter-dining and inter-marriage … These being my views I am opposed to all those who are out to destroy the Caste System. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 95

Categorization

• QUESTION: This early Ambedkar quote opposing the destruction of caste sits oddly with his later annihilationist project - worth tracing exactly what early ‘opposition’ he meant and when/why it changed.
• XREF: The ‘limits on enjoyment’ framing parallels Foucault’s normalization and also Mary Douglas’s purity-boundary analysis of caste food and marriage rules. — connects to: Nostalgic pasts serve as fantasies where duty and enjoyment coincide — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 269; Elite status is marked by differential access to enjoyment — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 563