Top Highlights

• Caste is the bones, race the skin. Race is what we can see, the physical traits that have been given arbitrary meaning and become shorthand for who a person is. Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in its place.
• caste guides each of us often beyond the reaches of our awareness.
• What people look like, or, rather, the race they have been assigned or are perceived to belong to, is the visible cue to their caste. It is the historic flash card to the public of how they are to be treated,
• These were the Untouchables who would later come to be known as Dalits, the subordinate caste of India.
• but the basis of its economic and social order.