The central concern examines the rise of feminist scholarship exploring links between caste, class and gender, under the analytical framework of causal relationship of distinction and markers of inequality. While the political economy of difference is indispensable highlighting the role of oppression, a critical sociological understanding of social relations of structural differences and commonalities needs to be built up in order to grapple with a complex and rapidly changing social reality. Drawing from critical feminist framework grounded in theories of production relations and cultural subordination may be useful to explore the complex and dynamic interconnections between caste, class and patriarchy. This course sets to address the new issues of control in the context of gradation on their production, reproduction, sexuality and exclusion. There has been issues of inequality existing everywhere, yet went unnoticed until contemporary times.

KEYWORDS:  Cultural Subordination, Sociological Understanding, Inequality, Political Economy.