• ISBN13: 9781848134492
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publisher Imprint: Zed Books
• Publication Date: May 10, 2011
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: GBP 29.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 227 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, and Discrimination

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime is committed in India on a dalit-untouchable.

The Persistence of Caste uses the shocking case of Khairlanji, the brutal murder of four members of a dalit family in 2006, to explode the myth that caste no longer matters. In this exposé, Anand Teltumbde locates the crime within the political economy of post-Independence India and across the global Indian diaspora. This book demonstrates how caste has shown amazing resilience - surviving feudalism, capitalist industrialization and a republican constitution - to still be alive and well today, despite all denial, under neoliberal globalization.

This insightful new analysis not only provides a fascinating introduction to the issue of caste in a globalized world, but also sharpens our understanding of caste dynamics as they really exist.

Teltumbde, Anand: - Anand Teltumbde is a human rights activist, writer, commentator and analyst of the contemporary dalit and left movements. His recent books are 'Hindutva and Dalits' (ed.) and 'Anti-Imperialism and Annihilation of Castes'.