This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations. Considering Guru and Sarukkais path-breaking work on Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (2019), this volume applies the insights of the theories to multiple settings, issues and communities. Unique to this volume, Brahmin and other dominant castes' experiences are considered, rather than simply focusing on the lives of oppressed castes (Dalits). Analysis of cross-caste friendships or romances and marriages, furthermore, brings out the intimate and ingrained aspects of caste. Taken together, therefore, the contributions in this volume offer rich insights into caste and its consciousness within the framework of everyday experiences. 

Dhaneswar Bhoiis Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was the Associate Editor of Journal of the World Universities Forum, USA, and is the author of several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes including Economic Growth, Development of Scheduled Castes and their Education: Line Drawn from Neoliberal Era in India, Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE 2022).

Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer& former Co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Voice of Dalit(SAGE), Co-editor of Civility in Crisis, Democracy, Equality, and the Majoritarian Challenge in India, Routledge, and author of Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (OUP, 2017).

Introduction.- Part I: Caste and Psycho-emotional Effects.- Chapter 1: Persistence of Caste Violence in Contemporary India: Psychosocial Underpinnings.- Chapter-2: Caste, Experience and Psycho-emotional Feelings of Dalits in Higher Education.- Part-II: Caste Ritual and Practice.- Chapter 3: Living Memories of Caste: The Thotis  Stick.- Chapter 4: The Pulluvans, Sacred Serpents and Performative Healing in Kerala.- Chapter-5: Whose Freedom? Interrogating the Free Hindu Temples Campaign, Caste Politics and Dalit Contestations of the Temple Space in Tamil Nadu.- Part-III: Caste Purity.- Chapter 6: Brahmins Touch in Digital Branding: Food, Taste, and Identity.- Chapter 7: Practicing Family, Intimacy, and Caste: Narratives of Dalit Women in Non-endogamous Marriages.- Chapter 8: Do Not Talk Like the Other Castes: Language and Everyday Casteism in a Marathi Brahmin Household in Mumbai.- Part-IV: Caste and Education.- Chapter-9: Caste in Schools: Experiences of Dalit Children.- Chapter-10: (Re)production of Caste Prejudices: Viva-Voce Examination in Higher Education in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.- Part-V: Caste and Occupation& Navigating Caste Boundaries.- Chapter 11: We are majority here: Valmikis of Mumbai and the Making of an anti-caste space.- Chapter 12: Caste, Labour and Migration: Unending Everyday Pains of Dalits at Brick Kilns.- Conclusion: Afterword.