It asserts the Dalit woman’s role, wider social relations of power and
inequality, and everyday negotiation with the dominant patriarchal society. The author brilliantly used
Bernstein’s theoretical framework and reviewed the works of Andre Beteille, Usta Parnaik, Barbara
Harriss-White, and so on, to understand the forces of capitalism in relation to rural labourers and the
nature of Dalit
... [Show full abstract] labourers in India. Bernstein’s theory, for instance, emphasises the expansion of India’s
GDP while posing significant job and discrimination challenges, leading to the emergence of new
classes, intra-class differentiation, occupational multiplicity, and so on.