Introduction
Part I: Caste and Psycho-emotional Effects
Chapter 1: Persistence of Caste Violence in Contemporary India: Psychosocial Underpinnings
Chapter-2: Caste, Experience and Psycho-emotional Feelings of Dalits in Higher Education
Part-II: Caste Ritual and Practice
Chapter 3: Living Memories of Caste: The Thoti’s Stick
Chapter 4: The Pulluvans, Sacred Serpents and Performative Healing in Kerala
Chapter-5: Whose Freedom? – Interrogating the ‘Free Hindu Temples’ Campaign, Caste Politics and Dalit Contestations of the Temple Space in Tamil Nadu
Part-III: Caste Purity
Chapter 6: Brahmins ‘Touch’ in Digital Branding: Food, Taste, and Identity
Chapter 7: Practicing Family, Intimacy, and Caste: Narratives of Dalit Women in Non-endogamous Marriages
Chapter 8: “Do Not Talk Like the Other Castes”: Language and Everyday Casteism in a Marathi Brahmin Household in Mumbai
Part-IV: Caste and Education
Chapter-9: Caste in Schools: Experiences of Dalit Children
Chapter-10: (Re)production of Caste Prejudices: Viva-Voce Examination in Higher Education in Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Part-V: Caste and Occupation & Navigating Caste Boundaries
Chapter 11: We are majority here: Valmikis of Mumbai and the Making of an anti-caste space
Chapter 12: Caste, Labour and Migration: Unending Everyday Pains of Dalits at Brick Kilns
Conclusion: Afterword.