![]() ![]() Generated in the main by dalit feminists’ critiques of how practices of caste respectability and caste privilege produce significant inequalities amongst women, such debates have exploded the concept of gender upon which feminist analysis rests and brought to the surface internal tensions in feminist practice. Recent critiques of Indian feminism have highlighted the fact that feminism tends not to embrace all women, but is exclusionary. Nothing else will serve as the solvent of Caste. The real remedy for breaking Caste is inter-marriage. ![]() But where society cut asunder, marriage as a binding force becomes a matter of urgent necessity. Where society is already well-knit by other ties, marriage is an ordinary incident of life. Among the Hindus inter-marriage must necessarily be a factor of greater force in social life than it need be in the life of the non-Hindus. Fusion of blood alone can create the feeling of being kith and kin and unless this feeling of kinship, of being kindred, becomes paramount the separatist feeling – the feeling of being aliens – created by Caste will not vanish. I am convinced that the real remedy is inter-marriage. But it is a common experience that inter-dining has not succeeded in killing the spirit of Caste and the consciousness of Caste. There are many Castes which allow inter-dining. ![]()
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