Graded inequality makes every caste level invested in preserving the hierarchy

Evidence

The second reason why I say the task is impossible will be clear, if you will bear in mind that the caste system has two aspects. In one of its aspects, it divides men into separate communities. In its second aspect, it places these communities in a graded order one above the other in social status. Each caste takes its pride and its consolation in the fact that in the scale of castes it is above some other caste. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 972 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It must at once be added, however, that this markedly unstratified traditional political system does recognize a subordinate category of people known as sab who fulfil such specialized and to the nomad degrading tasks as hunting, leather- and metal-working, and haircutting. The sab who practise these occupations form a minute fraction of the total population and, traditionally, were separated from other Somali by restrictions on marriage and commensality. Today the enfranchisement of these Midgans, Tumals, and Yibirs, is far advanced and most of their traditional disabilities are disappearing. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 66 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Caste labels perpetuate hierarchy because names carry fixed notions of birth-based rank.; Caste and capitalism fused into a uniquely Indian economic alloy; Invocations of merit mask privileged-caste nepotism and opposition to reservation. (+5 more)

Related

• Caste structurally denies entitlement to land, wealth, knowledge and opportunity (similarity 0.85)
• Caste hierarchy gives every group a stake in preserving the system. (similarity 0.85)
• Abolishing sub-castes may actually strengthen and entrench the larger castes. (similarity 0.83)
• Every caste member including Untouchables practises some Brahminism against lower groups (similarity 0.83)
• Caste labels perpetuate hierarchy because names carry fixed notions of birth-based rank. (similarity 0.83)
• Somali egalitarianism coexists with a stigmatized sab caste (similarity 0.82)
• Graded inequality makes even low castes interested in preserving caste (similarity 0.81)
• Caste is a graded hierarchy of labourers, not mere division of labour (similarity 0.81)
• Caste among Muslims and Sikhs differs fundamentally from Hindu caste. (similarity 0.80)
• Somali egalitarian pastoralism still stratified an outcast sab caste (similarity 0.80)
• Ambedkar declared caste inequality must be rooted out, not merely untouchability (similarity 0.79)
• The caste system divides and grades labourers, unlike ordinary division of labour (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Caste hierarchy gives every group a stake in preserving the system. #corroborates (0.90) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 972
• Every caste member including Untouchables practises some Brahminism against lower groups #expands (0.75)
• Somali egalitarianism coexists with a stigmatized sab caste #exemplifies (0.60)
• Somali egalitarian pastoralism still stratified an outcast sab caste #exemplifies (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 66