Urbanisation ends caste-order

Dalits living in cities do much better than their village counterparts. Shifting to an urban setting will dissolve all understandings of caste divisions

I have seen lot of discussion about caste system on r/India, but views from dalit thinkers are seldom discussed. To think that caste system can't be removed from India is not true.

BR Ambedkar had urged Dalits to quit living in villages and move over to cities. He described that process of migration as “new life movement” for Dalits.

Ambedkar’s famous quote on villages when he had reasoned, “The love of the intellectual Indian for the village community is of course infinite, if not pathetic…What is a village but a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow mindedness and communalism”, is valid even today .

Ask any Dalit today about the difference between life in a village and that in a city, all will prefer cities to villages, even those who have not read Ambedkar. In cities and towns, power of the caste order declines significantly. We all know it well that Dalits are least likely to succeed in a village setup. Dalits succeed in cities and escape discrimination to a large extent. Since the caste order was designed for a society that was agrarian in nature, the institution loses relevance in cities. Not that cities are free of caste-constructs but it is difficult to practice caste brutality in an urban set up.

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