EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF CASTE AND GENDER: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE RAJBANSHI KSHATRIYA MOVEMENT

Colonial and Postcolonial studies on caste and gender threw up several important theoretical and political challenges. Though it was advent in the post-1990s feminist thought, there were various loopholes unraveled in contemporary times. The studies on the caste movement get prominence not just through its one type of category focusing on but rather several categories incorporated with. This paper seeks to shed some light on Caste Gender overlapping in the Rajbanshi Kshatriya movement. Intersectionality is a critical framework for understanding independent systems of discrimination and oppression experienced by caste-gender identity. However, this paper aims to examine the different ideological positions in the Caste movement through historical methods, challenging the process of mobilization in a Caste movement that fought for social justice.