![]() ![]() Analyzing context and crime, it seeks to locate this event in the political economy of the development process India has followed after Independence. 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. What drives people to commit such inhuman crimes? The gouging out of eyes, the hacking off of limbs and being burned alive or stoned to death are routine in the atrocities perpetrated against India's 170 million dalits. 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. Teltumbde bears witness to the degradation of Indian democracy. I would hope to see it read by every Indian activist and also foreigners who do not see how odious the caste system is. This is not a book about the last days of relict feudalism, but a book about what modernity means in India. ![]() (For sale in South Asia only for rest of the world, an edition is available from Zed Books, London.)Īnand Teltumbde's analysis of the public, ritualistic massacre of a dalit family in 21st century India exposes the gangrenous heart of our society. ![]() ![]() The Khairlanji Murders & India's Hidden Apartheid ![]()
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