Definition: The Caste and Anti-Brahmin Movements in modern India represent a series of socio-religious, cultural, and political struggles led by marginalized classes to challenge the structural hegemony of the priestly Brahmin caste, dismantle the ritualistic hierarchy of the Hindu varna system, and assert the fundamental human rights, educational access, and political representation of the Shudras and Ati-Shudras (Dalits).
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