Caste and Class: Strategic Tools for the Sustenance of Supremacy Analysing the Works of Aravind Adiga and Rohinton Mistry
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm2025.v05.n03.002Keywords:
Caste system, Class system, Control, Dominant, Struggle, SupremacyAbstract
Oppression means the subjugation and marginalisation of a particular group of people within a nation, state, region, or society. The class and caste systems are two oppressive tools used by a few people who are at the top of the hierarchy to maintain their control and power. People are strategically divided by caging them into compartments, making the dominant people the supreme controllers of the subjugated caged people. The caste system is a traditional phenomenon of extending dominance over lower caste people, and to sustain this supremacy, violence, religion and denying education methods are used. With modernization and industrialization, sources of income have increased, which has consequently improved the living conditions of caste victims. Migration to cities and switching to some other source of income by the subjugated section has depleted the stronghold of the dominant upper caste section. To sustain their supremacy, these dominant sections have combined the caste system with the class system manipulatively. This concept is analysed in the works of Aravind Adiga and Rohinton Mistry in this study.
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