In the classroom of an elite college in New Delhi, a professor begins a conversation with: “If you don’t know the answer to ‘what is your caste’, you’re most likely a privileged, upper-caste Hindu.” About 200 km away, in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district, Chandrashekhar would know from experience what the professor is talking about.
While his father was a schoolteacher, Chandrashekhar and his brothers would often be heckled by upper-caste Yadavs and Thakurs if the lower-caste Dalits, the community to which they belonged, refused to do their ...
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First Published: Fri, January 12 2018. 21:13 IST
