{"product_id":"the-caste-contract","title":"The Caste Contract","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Caste Contract\u003c\/em\u003e explores how dominant-caste supremacy pervades Indian society, protected by contemporary government, education, and culture. In his groundbreaking book \u003cem\u003eThe Racial Contract\u003c\/em\u003e, Charles W. Mills argued that the social contract celebrated by moral philosophers exists at the direct expense and exploitation of non-whites. Here, Da Costa brings Mills’s framework into conversation with Dalit leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar to examine caste, a 2500-year-old system of dehumanization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than accidental or exceptional, Da Costa argues that dominant-caste ignorance is purposefully organized to ensure complicity. Seeing caste ignorance as a material structure of the state, Da Costa challenges the caste-neutral ideologies that travel with the diaspora into every corner of the planet, including Canada and the US, where caste is made illegible to mainstream, multicultural society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith intimate personal narrative and rigorous academic research, Da Costa explains how caste, brahminical supremacy, and willful ignorance continue to shape the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fernwood Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66194554650973,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781773638867.jpg?v=1791806712","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/the-caste-contract","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}