Caste prevents the shared activity that would unite Hindus socially.
Evidence
This is proved by the fact that the festivals observed by the different castes amongst the Hindus are the same. Yet these parallel performances of similar festivals by the different castes have not bound them into one integral whole. For that purpose what is necessary is for a man to share and participate in a common activity, so that the same emotions are aroused in him that animate the others. Making the individual a sharer or partner in the associated activity, so that he feels its success as his success, its failure as his failure, is the real thing that binds men and makes a society of them. The caste system prevents common activity; and by preventing common activity, it has prevented the Hindus from becoming a society with a unified life and a consciousness of its own being. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 877
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Shared festivals fail to unite castes because caste blocks common participation (similarity 0.89)
- Caste restricts Hindu moral concern to fellow caste members rather than humanity (similarity 0.88)
- Hinduism’s pervasiveness makes renouncing caste seem impracticable to many (similarity 0.83)
- Hindus form warring self-interested caste groups rather than an integrated society. (similarity 0.83)
- Caste destroys the fellow-feeling that makes united resistance possible. (similarity 0.83)
- Brahmins will never lead a movement that dissolves their own caste power (similarity 0.83)
- Brahmins uphold caste theory while breaking its rules to protect class power (similarity 0.83)
- Only intermarriage, not inter-dining, can dissolve the separatism of caste. (similarity 0.81)
- Brahminism blocks cross-caste solidarity by blurring who is victim and oppressor (similarity 0.80)
- Caste destroys the social cement that produces fellow-feeling and collective strength. (similarity 0.80)
- Non-Hindu castes are counterbalanced by integrative ties absent among Hindus. (similarity 0.80)
- Caste is inconsistent with conversion because no caste admits outsiders. (similarity 0.80)
- Hindu revivalists proselytised Untouchables to retain them in subordination. (similarity 0.80)
- Religious notions are the root mechanism sustaining India’s caste system. (similarity 0.80)
- Hindu caste is religiously consecrated while non-Hindu caste is merely practice. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Caste restricts Hindu moral concern to fellow caste members rather than humanity
#expands(0.80) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 901 - Brahminism blocks cross-caste solidarity by blurring who is victim and oppressor
#expands(0.60) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 134 - Hindu society trapped each person permanently in their birth caste
#expands(0.60) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 316 - Caste structurally denies entitlement to land, wealth, knowledge and opportunity
#expands(0.60) - Untouchable children were denied access to sacred-text languages as caste control
#expands(0.60) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 294 - The caste system disabled lower-caste Hindus from rebelling by denying arms and education.
#expands(0.55) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 303 - Shuddhi reconversion to Hinduism was undercut by caste unwillingness to mingle with converts
#expands(0.55) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1096 - Caste explains Hindu neglect that risks aborigines converting to rival faiths.
#expands(0.55) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 885