ABSTRACT
The Oppositional Bahujan Agency relates to an oppositional gaze and a political strategy of Bahujans to replace the Brahmanical aesthetics of Natyashastra with Ambedkar’s historical methods as an epistemology to locate a non-Brahmin experience in order to explore the representation of caste, gender, and marginalised communities in Indian cinema. It is an inverted methodology of creating a unique oppositional socio-political Bahujan aesthetics in Indian cinema embedded in Bahujan lived experience, culture, history, movements, and ideology via Bahujan film-makers.
