INTD 2045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Constitution Of India, Dalit, Intersectionality
22 Nov 2017
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Differentiate between a dalit and brahminical understanding of caste relations. Describe the contributions of dalit intellectuals to the study of india. Explain intersectionality as a mode of sociological analysis. Methods of studying the complex interrelations between 2 or more kind of identities. Census tries to put you in one category. Developed by black feminist scholar kimberl crenshaw in 1980. Show that back women in america face the double experience of being both black and a women. I. e. the intersections of gender and class shows us that a working class white woman experiences the world in a way that is different than a working class man. Intersectionality helps us understand the different experience of caste. Overlapping identities that dictate how you see the world. Anti-colonial indian elites tended to come from the upper castes, speak english, and in the fight against british wanted to project a national indian identity. Ambedkar, a dalit scholar and key author of the first indian constitution.
