AMERICA’S CASTE SYSTEM
Dalits are not India’s only Blacks. Also consigned to the social and economic basement are Muslims and Adivasis
Termed an “instant American classic” by , Isabel Wilkerson’s thorny book is not the first to use “caste” to probe America’s racial ills. A European word popularised in India by the Portuguese, “caste” has often featured in explanations of “race”, including in , a reputed 1944 book by Gunnar Myrdal, the.
