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“A Dalit still remains a Dalit”: a study of the communist movement and the caste question, 1926–2016
Debayudh Chatterjee traces how India's communists, and the CPI(M) in West Bengal above all, dealt with caste over ninety years. He argues that the party slowly came to take caste seriously, but each time folded it back into its stance on class struggle, and that it did so most when it was losing votes.
Explains: Debayudh Chatterjee, "Class versus Caste: The Conundrum of Dalit Politics and the Communist Movement in India (1926–2016)", in Organizing Equality: Dispatches from a Global Struggle, ed. Alison Hearn, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Amanda F. Grzyb (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022), 54–71. ISBN 978-0-2280-1196-5