Dalit and Scheduled Caste refer to overlapping but distinct groups

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scheduled Caste status excludes Christian and Muslim Dalits — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 450; Caste and chaturvarnya rest on opposed principles and are distinct systems.; Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297 (+1 more)

Related

• Dalit and Scheduled Caste are not synonymous categories. (similarity 0.87)
• Caste and chaturvarnya rest on opposed principles and are distinct systems. (similarity 0.85)
• Scheduled Caste status excludes Christian and Muslim Dalits (similarity 0.84)
• Sub-castes prove caste cannot rest on racial purity. (similarity 0.83)
• Caste among Muslims and Sikhs differs fundamentally from Hindu caste. (similarity 0.82)
• Ambedkar argued caste divides labourers themselves, not just labour (similarity 0.82)
• Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class (similarity 0.81)
• Ambedkar defined caste as an endogamous enclosed class in 1916 (similarity 0.81)
• Caste is compared to racism only through descent-based discrimination, not identity of forms (similarity 0.81)
• Ambedkar formulated caste as a unique enclosed endogamous class under Dewey’s tutelage. (similarity 0.80)
• Castes are social divisions within one race, not racial divisions (similarity 0.80)
• Caste infection extends beyond Hindus to Sikhs, Muslims, and Christians (similarity 0.79)
• Outcaste status cannot be ended while caste hierarchy remains (similarity 0.78)
• Caste discrimination persists inside non-Hindu religious communities. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class #complicates (0.35) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297
• Somali egalitarianism coexists with a stigmatized sab caste #epitomizes (0.30)