Caste in Everyday Life Experience and Affect in Indian Society

Introduction.- Part I: Caste and Psycho-emotional Effects.- Chapter 1: Persistence of Caste Violence in Contemporary India: Psychosocial Underpinnings.- Chapter-2: Caste, Experience and Psycho-emotional Feelings of Dalits in Higher Education.- Part-II: Caste Ritual and Practice.- Chapter 3: Living Memories of Caste: The Thoti’s  Stick.- Chapter 4: The Pulluvans, Sacred Serpents and Performative Healing in Kerala.- Chapter-5: Whose Freedom? – Interrogating the ‘Free Hindu Temples’ Campaign, Caste Politics and Dalit Contestations of the Temple Space in Tamil Nadu.- Part-III: Caste Purity.- Chapter 6: Brahmins ‘Touch’ in Digital Branding: Food, Taste, and Identity.- Chapter 7: Practicing Family, Intimacy, and Caste: Narratives of Dalit Women in Non-endogamous Marriages.- Chapter 8: “Do Not Talk Like the Other Castes”: Language and Everyday Casteism in a Marathi Brahmin Household in Mumbai.- Part-IV: Caste and Education.- Chapter-9: Caste in Schools: Experiences of Dalit Children.- Chapter-10: (Re)production of Caste Prejudices: Viva-Voce Examination in Higher Education in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.- Part-V: Caste and Occupation & Navigating Caste Boundaries.- Chapter 11: We are majority here: Valmikis of Mumbai and the Making of an anti-caste space.- Chapter 12: Caste, Labour and Migration: Unending Everyday Pains of Dalits at Brick Kilns.- Conclusion: Afterword.

Dhaneswar Bhoi is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was the Associate Editor of Journal of the World Universities Forum, USA, and is the author of several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes including ‘Economic Growth, Development of Scheduled Castes and their Education: Line Drawn from Neoliberal Era in India’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE 2022).

Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer & former Co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE), Co-editor of Civility in Crisis, Democracy, Equality, and the Majoritarian Challenge in India, Routledge, and author of Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (OUP, 2017).