What’s your ism? Ep 8 feat. Sumeet mhasker on caste, reservation, hindutva
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Sumeet Mhasker, a labour sociologist and professor at OP Jindal Global University, has been analysing non-Brahmin and OBC politics over the last century and how these communities respond to
the question of Hindutva and their economic hardship. In this episode of _What’s Your Ism,_ host Sudipto Mondal and professor Mhasker discuss the premise of Maharashtra’s Maratha reservation
agitation and the sentiments driving other non-Brahmin communities to launch similar struggles. As one of the few academics in India to study the economic factors behind the unrest within
the socially dominant Shudra communities, Mhasker applies the Ambedkarite lens to his economic and class analysis. Ambedkarism, he contends, is “misunderstood” to be primarily concerned with
caste when it is also focused on class.