ABSTRACT
Susie Tharu presents a close study on how caste-class-gender factors shape Dalit women’s lives in India, exposing the brahmanical nature of Indian feminists, which leads them seamlessly to relegate caste to the margins, and which forces ‘Dalit women – scholars and intellectuals included – [to] fade and die unappreciated’. This chapter observes and addresses the brahmanical underpinnings of patriarchal injustices faced by the Dalit women. This explicates the important role of intersectionality for an adequate conception of the nature of gender-based inequalities in India, and for any viable hopes for attending to it systematically, to the mutual benefit of all women.
