Can 'Castelessness' Fix Caste? | Visual Narrative

This visual narrative distills Sociologist Satish Deshpande’s article: “Caste and Castelessness: Towards a Biography of the ‘General Category’,” (published in the EPW) on how the upper caste identity can be completely overwritten by modern professional identities of choice, while the lower caste identity is so indelibly engraved that it overwrites all other identities and renders them illegible, along with the choices that they may represent.

He argues that this asymmetrical division has truncated the effective meaning of caste to lower caste, thus leaving the upper castes free to monopolise the "general category" by posing as casteless citizens.

View it here: https://www.epw.in/engage/article/can-castelessness-fix-caste