Abstract This article introduces and analyzes the anticaste Marxist politics of the Dehaat Mazdoor Tanzeem (DMT, Agrarian Workers Organization) in 1970s Punjab, Pakistan. The DMT was a suborganization of the Mazdoor Kissan (Workers and Peasants) Party (MKP), a Maoist political party that focused on revolutionary organizing in the Pakistani countryside. The DMT drew on and combined Dravidianist theories of India's past, global Marxism, and regional histories of caste-based dispossession to articulate the rural landless and marginal caste Mussalli community as the revolutionary subject. In doing so, they offered the South Asian left a unique coconstitutive conceptualization of caste and class and transformed Marxism by grounding key global concepts like the peasant and the proletarian in the particular material conditions and longue durée of rural Punjab.
Sara Kazmi (Fri,) studied this question.