Police violence upholding caste is reframed as keeping peace

Evidence

Ask any village policeman in India what his job is and he’ll probably tell you it is to ‘keep the peace’. That is done, most of the time, by upholding the caste system. Dalit aspirations are a breach of peace. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 38

Categorization

• SEED: The phrase ‘Dalit aspirations are a breach of peace’ could seed an essay on how regimes label aspirational demands as disorder to justify repression—echoing colonial and authoritarian framing everywhere.