They spitefully denounce every arrangement of Dalitness. Many affluent Dalits restrict their coterie to the world of Brahmins and other dominant castes. Here are a few excerpts from Caste Matters' introduction, Caste Souls: Motifs of The Twenty-first Century, where he points out that in order to end caste-based discrimination, it should matter.ĭalit identity is disguised in public, it is hidden and loathed. Yengde, who is a Shorenstein Center inaugural post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a first-generation Dalit scholar, also examines the "Dalit community itself - from their internal caste divisions to the conduct of elite Dalits and their tokenized forms of modern-day untouchability- all operating under the inescapable influences of Brahminical doctrines." Yengde's unflinchingly honest and detailed account of growing up in a Dalit Basti, depicts the humiliations, struggles, and suffering uncountable Dalits experience on a daily basis. Editor's Note: In this deeply passionate, and angry memoir, titled ' Caste Matters', writer and academic activist, Suraj Yengde, peels the layers of the deep-rooted caste system in India to show you how this impenetrable social divide has for centuries crushed human lives and is very similar to other forms of oppression, such as race, class and gender.
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