CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA
Laurie Taylor will be contemplating caste.Ìý Is caste simply a form of class or ethnicity, or a more complicated kind of identity?Ìý How does this age old system of social hierarchy still operate in modern democratic India?
Laurie Taylor talks with Hugo Gorringe, who has made a study of the ‘Untouchables’, now known as Dalits, in rural Tamil Nadu and explores the political movement to end their oppression.
Also joining in the discussion about the origins and changing nature of caste, is DrÌýMary Searle-Chatterjee, Lecturer in South Asian Studies in the Department of Religions and Theology at Manchester University and DrÌýDavid Mosse, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
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