![]() ![]() ![]() He teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Kharagpur, and is a columnist with the Economic & Political Weekly. The ascending groups, the traditional labouring castes, on the process on the. Anand Teltumbde is a civil rights activist. 42 THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE BEYOND VARNA 47. ![]() Teltumbde demonstrates how caste has shown amazing resilience-surviving feudalism, capitalist industrialisation and a republican Constitution-to still be alive and well today, despite all denial, under neoliberal globalisation. Analysing context and crime, it seeks to locate this event in the political economy of the development process India has followed after Independence. COMMENTS: Anand Teltumbdes analysis of the public, ritualistic massacre of a dalit family in 21st century India exposes the gangrenous heart of our society. While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics every eighteen minutes a crime is committed on a dalit.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.The Persistence of Caste: the Khairlanji Murders and Indias Hidden Apartheid by Anand Teltumbde: Paperback/192 Pages. ![]()
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