都说印度是种姓制度，而且印度强奸案频发，那么低姓的男人敢强奸高姓女性吗？ 第1页

我已经看到两篇回答——现在看来是最高赞——以印度黑公交轮奸案举例了，说受害者Jyoti Singh Pandey是婆罗门。

我不是种姓问题的专家——好像知乎上只有我一个人不是种姓问题专家——我在回答这个问题前，就以为种姓制度就是婆罗门/刹地利/吠舍/首陀罗/贱民。在回答这个问题之前，我也不知道“种姓”的英文单词是"caste"。

下面的内容基本就是以"Jyoti Singh Pandey" + "Caste"在谷歌上搜到的。

没错，Pandey是一个高种姓姓氏，说受害者是婆罗门的人的唯一论据就是她姓Pandey。

Pandey is a surname of the Hindu Brahmins communities of Northern and Central India. It is likely to be derived from Sanskrit wordpandita, which means a 'spiritual scholar' or 'scholar'. The name Pandey (meaning pundit or Expert) indicated Brahmins who specialized in all 4 Vedas as well as Puranas and preaching vedic knowledge and conducting vedic practices

source：https://forebears.io/surnames/pandey

但是受害者Jyoti Singh Pandey并不是婆罗门，而是一种低种姓Kurmi，至于为什么她姓Pandey，知之为知之，不知为不知：

2012年12月，一名23岁女性，在一辆行驶中的巴士上被五名男子轮奸并用铁棍袭击后身亡。那名女子属于库尔米(Kurmi)种姓，也是一种低种姓。事件发生后印度经历一番深入的反思，然而，人们在辩论中对种姓制度谈论得不够多。虽然西方游客和女性在城市中心遭受攻击吸引了大量关注，但低种姓女性遭到强奸却往往无法引发公众的愤怒。比如，总理纳伦德拉·莫迪(Narendra Modi)目前尚未对格德拉萨达甘吉发生的奸杀案做出谴责。

没有直接说是德里公交轮奸案，但是，2012年，23岁女性，公交车，五名男子（实际是六人，有一人未成年没有被定罪），都符合。

source：纽约时报中文网

一篇直接讨论该案的论文，该论文目前被引64次:

Pandey's family was part of the Kurmi community, a lower caste group with agricultural origins; her attackers, it turns out, also belong to lower caste groups.

Pandey的家庭属于Kurmi社区，一个低种姓农业群体，而性侵者同样来自低种姓群体。

source: Roychowdhury, P. (2013). " The Delhi gang rape": The making of international causes. Feminist studies, 39(1), 282-292.

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In order to fully understand the aftermath, some background is necessary. Jyoti Singh Pandey was the firstborn child of Asha Devi and Badri Singh Pandey, who belonged to the Kurmi caste, an agriculturalist group registered as a Backward Caste (BC).


Jyoti met Awindra Pratap Pandey, the twenty-eight-year-old friend and IT specialist with whom she went to the movies on the night of the attack, through a mutual friend. Awindra belonged to a higher caste, a detail that caught interest as the public speculated as to the nature of their relationship in the aftermath of the assault. On the evening of December 16, 2012, the two made plans to see the new Hollywood movie, Life of Pi

Jyoti是Asha Devi and Badri Singh Pandey的第一个孩子，他们属于Kurmi种姓，一个农业群体，已经注册的落后阶层（Backward Caste似乎是一个印度政府的专有名词，

当晚与Jyoti与Awindra Pratap Pandey共同看电影《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》，Awindra同样姓Pandey，但“Awindra belonged to a higher caste”

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Badri said Jyoti’s friend Awindra was not her boyfriend – just a very brave friend who tried to save her. He said: “There was no question of her marrying because we belong to different castes. “She never expressed a desire to marry. She was concentrating on her studies and wanted a job first.” Badri also revealed that Jyoti often mentioned how much Awindra tried to save her. “She kept telling her mother he tried his best to help but they kept beating him with a rod.”

Badri（Jyoti的父亲）说：Awindra不是Jyoti的男朋友，但Awindra在Jyoti受侵犯时很勇敢地试图救她，同时Jyoti不可能嫁给（同样姓Pandey的）Awindra，因为他们来自不同种姓，Jyoti目前没有结婚的打算，她目前专注于学业，希望先找到工作。

Source：英国《每日镜报》

这是另一篇论文，是一篇马里兰大学的博士毕业论文，可以算对我不利的证据：

In a similar tone, Jyoti Singh Pandey's caste was left unsaid in the coverage, but as discussed earlier, the last name usually identifies the caste of the individual (Ovichegan, 2015; pp. 54). Jyoti belonged to a distinct category: She was upper caste, but lower middle class,

Jyoti的种姓没有出现在媒体报道中，但是， last name 通常就可以确定一个人的种姓（last name usually identifies the caste of the individual)。作者据此推测，Jyoti是高种姓，但属于中下阶层。

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回到问题本身：

from BBC:

A court in India has given the death penalty to three men convicted for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl.
The men, in their 20s, had raped the teenager in July last year. The court had declared them guilty on 18 November.
The victim belonged to the upper-caste Maratha community while the men were all Dalits, formerly untouchables.

三名20岁左右的男子，贱民，强奸了一名15岁少女，后者属于Maratha，我不了解这个种姓，但BBC报道说属于upper-caste

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