Sub-castes prove caste cannot rest on racial purity.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hindu castes share race rather than being racial divisions; Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297; Caste and chaturvarnya rest on opposed principles and are distinct systems.

Related

• Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class (similarity 0.89)
• Ambedkar defined caste as an endogamous enclosed class in 1916 (similarity 0.86)
• Castes are social divisions within one race, not racial divisions (similarity 0.85)
• Ambedkar formulated caste as a unique enclosed endogamous class under Dewey’s tutelage. (similarity 0.85)
• Caste and chaturvarnya rest on opposed principles and are distinct systems. (similarity 0.84)
• Ambedkar argued caste divides labourers themselves, not just labour (similarity 0.83)
• Dalit and Scheduled Caste refer to overlapping but distinct groups (similarity 0.83)
• Radhakrishnan defended caste as affirming the diversity of human groups. (similarity 0.82)
• Ambedkar declared caste inequality must be rooted out, not merely untouchability (similarity 0.82)
• Outcaste status cannot be ended while caste hierarchy remains (similarity 0.82)
• Caste is compared to racism only through descent-based discrimination, not identity of forms (similarity 0.82)
• Abolishing sub-castes may actually strengthen and entrench the larger castes. (similarity 0.81)
• Hinduism’s pervasiveness makes renouncing caste seem impracticable to many (similarity 0.81)
• Caste’s core structure pairs purity-entitlement at top with pollution-duty at bottom (similarity 0.81)
• Sub-caste fusion is less practicable than cross-caste fusion. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Hindu castes share race rather than being racial divisions #corroborates (0.80)
• Ambedkar defined caste as an enclosed, endogamous class distinct from race and class #corroborates (0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 297