From ‘Indian Coolie’ to ‘White Adjacent’ -The Indian Diaspora’s Struggle Against Caste and Other Colonial Labels

Indian society, with its rich variety, traditionally organized itself through systems like kula, gotra, varna, jati, sampradaya, and dharma. However, colonizers mixed these distinct categories into a homogenized mess, creating the all-encompassing and harmful misnomer of "caste."

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Richa Gautam

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Richa Gautam is Founder of Civil Rights Advocacy think tank called CasteFiles, and Executive Director at Cares-Global, a human rights group that works with rehabilitation of refugees.

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