Marxist class frameworks made Indian scholars blind to caste

Evidence

In the current debates about identity and justice, growth and development, for many of the best-known Indian scholars, caste is at best a topic, a subheading, and, quite often, just a footnote. By force-fitting caste into reductive Marxist class analysis, the progressive and left-leaning Indian intelligentsia has made seeing caste even harder. This erasure, this Project of Unseeing, is sometimes a conscious political act, and sometimes comes from a place of such rarefied privilege that caste has not been stumbled upon, not even in the dark, and therefore it is presumed to have been eradicated, like smallpox. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 42

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘Project of Unseeing’ concept maps onto the reader’s interest in how institutional/scholarly structures render inequality invisible.