'The Persistence of Caste' uses the shocking case of Khairlanji, the brutal murder of an entire Dalit family in 2006, to explode the myth that caste is a feudal relic, and argues that it has been well assimilated not only by capitalist India, but also globalising India - spreading out through the diaspora. 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 member of the dalit caste. (source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summary 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. 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. In this expose, Anand Teltumbde locates the crime within the political economy of post-Independence India and across the global Indian diaspora. 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. 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. Exploding Myths: Globalisation, civil society and Bahujan Appendix: Bhaiyalal Bhotmange Speaks Index. Media and Mitigation: prejudice and powerlessness Post-Khairlanji: A chronicle of repression Attrocities by the State: Neoliberalism, Naxalism and Dalit-Asivasis The Political Economy of Caste Attrocities: The making of a macabre Spectacle The Legacy of Caste: Understanding caste to annihilate it Exploding Myths: Globalisation, Civil Society and the Bahujan. Atrocities by the State: Neoliberalism, Naxalism and Dalits Post-Khairlanji: A Chronicle of Repression The Khairlanji Murders: Genealogy and Aftermath Anti-Atrocity Law: Mitigation and its Malcontents The Political Economy: The Shaping of the Macabre Spectacle Introduction: Caste: A Historical Outline

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Khairlanji by Anand Teltumbde