Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives—food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one's existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent. The contributors write about the myriad ways in which they have experienced caste. It may be in the form of forgoing certain kinds of food, or eating food at secluded corners of a household, or drinking tea out of a crushed plastic cup, or drinking black coffee in a coconut shell or water poured from above into a cupped hand. Such experiences may also take the form of forbidden streets, friends disapproved of and love denied. And when one leaves behind the fear of caste while living one's life, there is still death to deal with.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Translator’s Preface: Marked Bodies, Marked Minds
- Introduction: The Buried Treasure I Found by Perumal Murugan
- A Relentless Voice
- Caste in Folk Theatre
- Discrimination
- Of What Use?
- Only Son of the Family
- The Ugly Face of Caste
- Of the Soil
- In Which Ganges Do We Bathe? 40
- Futile Whimpering
- Pollution and Untouchability
- Ugly Grin
- A Kind of Pain
- A Wedding Feast with Mutton 76
- Empty Pride
- The Deep Pain of Identity
- Snatched Freedom and Life
- Like Eating Faeces
- Born of a Father, Born into a Caste 99
- Upper Caste Goddess
- Non-Existent
- Dealing with Inability
- Testimony
- Keeping Friends
- Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell 151
- Acceptance or Rejection?
- Distancing
- Everyday Moments
- Excommunication
- Penalty
- Family of Snake Charmers
- Stale Food
- Taking Life as It Comes
- About the Editor, Contributors and Translator
- Copyright
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