Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid

by Anand Teltumbde

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime is committed in India on a member of the dalit caste. "The Persistence of Caste" uses the shocking case of "Khairlanji," the brutal murder of an entire Dalit family in 2006, to explode the myth that caste is a feudal relic, and argues that it has been well assimilated not only by capitalist India, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848134495
• ISBN13: 9781848134492
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"