Caste, and caste-based discrimination, are not just Indian issues,  but has become a global phenomenon that requires global solutions, writes researcher Dr. Suraj Yengde in his new book "Caste. A Global Story". On Wednesday, October 8, at Melahuset he will  talk about his latest book, about the fight against the caste system and the fight for social rights and equality.

Doors open at 5:30 PM
Event starts at 6:00 PM.
Free admission.

"The story of caste cannot be understood by focusing on the South Asian landscape: one has to extend the study to other places where caste was interpreted, embraced and rejected. Caste reveals how localized institutions provided a basis for imaginative impulses of caste to survive amidst amorphous forms. Caste, therefore, is a journey, an itinerary of global identities and demographics".

About « Caste. A Global Story »

Suraj Yengde is a researcher, Dalit activist, and one of India's leading young intellectuals. In "Caste. A Global Story," Suraj Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle East.

What have been the impacts of colonialism, religion and nationalism on caste-based hierarchies worldwide? What can we learn from caste-related movements in India and internationally? Why hasn''t the South Asian diaspora embraced the anti-caste struggles of the homeland? And what are the limits of Dalit-Black solidarity? Combining history, ethnography and archival research, he explores the global footprint of the struggle against caste and delivers a powerful analysis of world politics from the perspective of one of the most oppressed communities on earth. Yengde asks probing questions about the nature of inequality and calls for a cosmopolitan Dalit universalism as a crucial part of today's struggle for social justice and equality.