Comparative Contexts of Discrimination: Caste and Untouchability in South Asia

Surinder S Jodhka, Ghanshyam ShahThis paper is based on a four-country study of “Caste-Based Discriminationin South Asia” covering Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The study was coordinated by the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi and funded by the International Dalit Solidarity Network, Denmark. The research team included Kalinga Tudor Silva, P P Sivapragasam and Paramsothy Thanges for Sri Lanka; Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury for Bangladesh; Zulfi qar Ali Shah for Pakistan; and Krishna B Bhattachan, Tej B Sunar and Yasso Kanti Bhattachan for Nepal. Chitteranjan Senapati and Sobin George coordinated the project from IIDS. We express our gratitude to Rikke Nohrlind of the IDSN for her support and Martin Macwan, S K Thorat, Vincent Manoharan, Paul Diwakar and…