It is overwhelming for the people of the subcontinent to think about what responsibilities come in the face of this. This is a letter to the many hearts that are broken or languishing in despair and anxiety. People who shudder and weep and stay up at night, deeply gripped by anxiety about the shadow of genocide that is imminent, growling like a starving beast. People on the front lines who have already lost people. Incisive and urgent, The Trauma of Caste is an activating beacon of healing and liberation, written by one of the world’s most needed voices in the fight to end caste apartheid. So this is a love letter to all people struggling with the horror of this moment. For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in. This book is written in the spirit of the idea that the opposite of genocide is to fight for life. It is more than anything a love letter to all of us trying to heal from systems of violence and a call that we can even this movement find the visionary path forward to free all of us. And Dalit peoples as survivors of religious violence and have so much to share at this moment. I wrote it as we face some of the challenging religious violence in our communities.
Seattle has banned discrimination based on caste. It ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective–and laying bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures of the caste-oppressed. city to outlaw caste discrimination in a contentious decision opposed by some Hindus. I wrote this book so that we would have a book that finally looked at Caste that centered in how we might heal from this system of exclusion. The Trauma of Caste is a Dalit Feminist meditation on survivorship, healing and abolition.
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