JOINT EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Laurence R. Simon Brandeis University, USA Sukhadeo Thorat (Emeritus) Jawaharlal Nehru University, India EDITOR Joseph K. Assan Brandeis University, USA REVIEWS EDITOR Dolly Daftary University of Massachusetts Boston, USA SENIOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Afia A. Adaboh Brandeis University, USA EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH & COMMUNICATIONS Jaspreet Mahal Brandeis University, USA PRODUCTION EDITOR Vinod Kumar Mishra Indian Institute for Dalit Studies, India UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Matthew Sheehy Brandeis University, USA OJS TECHNICAL MANAGER Brian Meuse Brandeis University Library, USA CASTE A G LO BAL J O U R NAL O N SOCIAL E XCLUS IO N LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Krishna Bhattachan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Clinical Associate Professor of Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Consultation Service; Founding Editor, Anthropol- ogy & Medicine journal (Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom); Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru Central University, Bengaluru, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar)  Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Jebaroja Singh, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, St. John Fisher College, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, USA Copyright © 2020 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL ESSAY Ashok Gurung and Sunaina Arya Guest Editors ....... ARTICLES Persisting Prejudice: Measuring Attitudes and Outcomes by Caste and Gender in India Amit Thorat, Nazar Khalid, Nikhil Srivastav, Payal Hathi, Dean Spears and Diane Coffey ....... 01 The Advent of Ambedkar in the Sphere of Indian Women Question Poonam Singh ....... 17 Leisure, Festival, Revolution: Ambedkarite Productions of Space Thomas Crowley ....... 31 Tathagata Buddha Songs: Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance Among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh Kalyani Kalyani ....... 51 Ambedkar, Lohia, and the Segregations of Caste and Gender: Envisioning a Global Agenda for Social Justice Anurag Bhaskar ....... 63 Speaking is Healing: Dalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic Healing Movement in Nepal Amar Bahadur BK ....... 73 FORUM ‘Blackhole’ (Poem in Hindi & English) Gaurav Pathania ....... 183 A Touchable Woman’s Untouchable Daugh- ter: Interplay of Caste and Gender in Nepal Sarita Pariyar ....... 187 POLICY ARENA Assessing the Impact of Public-Private Funded Midday Meal Programs on the Educational Attainment and Well-being of School Children in Uttar Pradesh, India Joseph K. Assan, Laurence Simon, Dinar D. Kharisma, Afia A. Adaboh, Nicola Assan, Abdullah Al Mamun ....... 193 BOOK REVIEWS The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India Ajantha Subramanian Reviewer: Vivek V. Narayan ....... 215 Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India Suryakant Waghmore Reviewer: Juned Shaikh ....... 227 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson Reviewer: Susan Holcombe ....... 231 Intersecting Dalit and Cultural Studies: De-brahmanizing the Disciplinary Space Prashant Ingole ....... 91 Ambedkarites in Making: The Process of Awakening and Conversion to Buddhism among Non-Mahar Communities in Maharashtra Tushar Ghadage ....... 107 Sex as a Weapon to Settle Scores against Dalits: A Quotidian Phenomenon Jyoti Diwakar ....... 121 Dalit Counterpublic and Social Space on Indian Campuses  Kristina Garalyte ....... 135 A Cultural Psychological Reading of Dalit Literature: A Case Study of Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki Aparna Vyas ....... 157 Witch Hunting: A Form of Violence Against Dalit Women in India Tanvi Yadav ....... 169