Suraj yengde caste matters5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() It is not the first personal story and nor will it be the last. ![]() Yengde’s story about growing up in the fringes and experiencing multi-layered discrimination as a member of the Dalit community is a powerful one. I left with the promise that I will read it once I could lay my hands on it.Ĭaste Matters, a mix of a memoir and an ethnographic study, is a scholar-activists’ interpretation of how caste oppression has survived in modern India despite the Constitutional provisions and laws passed to protect the Dalit. I had not yet read his book, Caste Matters that had dropped three months earlier but was aware that it had caused quite a stir among all stripes of Dalits in India. The tall and lanky scholar greeted me with a broad smile, and we ended up talking for more than an hour about various policies for the Scheduled Castes and the hurdles in the path of uniting them at the national level. ![]() Last year in October, I visited Harvard’s Kennedy School on a rainy morning to meet Suraj Yengde. ![]()
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