Caste Buster

A good article about a rapidly changing India, yet it continues to suffer the effects of the caste system.

From the NYT...

Misal embodies the type of person who will truly transform India: not an engineer or a financier, but an average person who refuses to be satisfied with the status he was born to. Umred rioted because its people had somehow acquired the courage of their own dissatisfaction. But what kind of India will they build?...

...Her mother, meanwhile, was opposed to the notion [of a marriage to Misal]. They were from the same caste and even the same subcaste. But they were not from the same sub-subcaste. They were the descendants of oil-seed crushers of different varieties. This could be overcome, but it would require some labor...