Sarbani Bandyopadhyay

Sarbani Bandyopadhyay is a doctoral fellow with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and teaches Sociology in St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta

Does the caste system really not exist in Bengal?

Bengali middle class society is seen as casteless because caste violence lacks visibility. One woman’s story of working as a teacher shows how caste intersects with gender to reproduce discriminatory practices.

By Sarbani Bandyopadhyay

/ 21 Apr 2016