"The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance (WCAR), held at Durban in South Africa in 2001, led to an
intense discussion on the issues of caste and race in India. The debate was
catapulted to the centre stage by the demand of Dalit groups for inclusion of
caste in the agenda of this conference and the different stands taken by the
government and some section of civil society. The discussion with different
stands in the media, academia, NGO sector and civil society generated voluminous
literature. This volume contains papers, which address issues related to caste,
race and discrimination, internalization of caste, present status