Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

CONTENTS
The Man in the Crowd
PART 1: TOXINS IN THE PERMAFROST AND HEAT RISING ALL AROUND
1. The Afterlife of Pathogens
Vitals of History
2. An Old House and an Infrared Light 15
3. An American Untouchable 21
An Invisible Program

PART 2: THE ARBITRARY CONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN DIVISIONS
4. A Long-Running Play and the Emergence of Caste in America 39
5. “The Container We Have Built for You” 54
6.The Measure of Humanity 62
7. Through the Fog of Delhi to the Parallels in India and America 73
8. The Nazis and the Acceleration of Caste 78
9. The Evil of Silence

PART 3: THE EIGHT PILLARS OF CASTE
The Foundations of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Pillar No 1. Divine Will and the Laws of Nature
Pillar No 2. Heritability
Pillar No 3. Endogamy and the Control of Marriage and Mating
Pillar No 4. Purity versus Pollution
Pillar No 5. Occupational Hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill
Pillar No 6. Dehumanization and Stigma
Pillar No 7. Terror as Enforcement, Cruelty as a Means of Control
Pillar No 8. Inherent Superiority versus Inherent Inferiority

PART 4: THE TENTACLES OF CASTE
Brown Eyes verus Blue Eyes
10. Central Miscasting
11. Dominant Group Status Threat and the Precarity of the Highest Rung
12. A Scapegoat to Bear the Sins of the World
13. The Insecure Alpha and the Purpose of an Underdog
14. The Intrusion of Caste in Everyday Life
15. The Urgent Necessity of a Bottom Rung
16. Last Place Anxiety: Packed in a Flooding Basement
17. On the Early Front Lines of Caste
18. Satchel Paige and the Illogic of Caste

PART 5: THE CONSEQUENCES OF CASTE
19. The Euphoria of Hate
20. The Inevitable Narcissism of Caste
21. The German Girl with the Dark, Wavy Hair
21. The Stockholm Syndrome and the Survival of the Subordinate Caste
23. Shock Troops on the Borders of Hierarchy
24.Cortisol, Telomeres, and the Lethality of Caste

PART 6: BACKLASH
25. A Change in the Script
26. Turning Point and the Resurgence of Caste
27. The Symbols of Caste
28. Democracy on the Ballot
29. The Price We Pay for a Caste System

PART 7: AWAKENING
30. Shedding the Sacred Thread
- The Radicalization of the Dominant Caste
31. The Heart Is the Last Frontier
Epilogue: A World Without Caste
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index