The Caste of Liberal Intervention

Abstract

In chapter five, Shankar theorizes Sahaayaka's intervention strategies within the liberal politics of savarna ideologies of “castelessness.” Shankar shows the way that Sahaayaka shies away from explicit reckonings with their caste positions and the caste structurings of the organization only to have these caste-based stratifications emerge quite explicitly in the everyday workings of the organization.