Concealing Caste

The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as ''untouchable,'' are perceived by others as ''high caste.'' Like the literature on racial passing in the American context, the short stories and autob...