Caste: the origins of our discontents

The man in the crowd

Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around

The arbitrary construction of human divisions

The eight pillars of caste

The tentacles of caste

The consequences of caste

Backlash

Awakening

Epilogue: A world without caste.

The man in the crowd

Part one: Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around. Chapter one: The afterlife of pathogens

The Vitals of History

Chapter two: An old house and an infrared light

Chapter three: An American untouchable

An Invisible Program

Part two: The arbitrary construction of human divisions. Chapter four: A long-running play and emergence of caste in America

Chapter five: "The Container We Have Built for You"

Chapter six: The measure of humanity

Chapter seven: Through the fog of Delhi to the parallels in India and America

Chapter eight: The Nazis and the acceleration of caste

Chapter nine: The Evil of Silence

Part three: The eight pillars of caste. The foundations of caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Pillar number one: Divine will and the laws of nature

Pillar number two: Heritability

Pillar number three: Endogamy and the control of marriage and mating

Pillar number four: Purity versus pollution

Pillar number five: Occupational hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill

Pillar number six: Dehumanization and stigma

Pillar number seven: Terror as enforcement, cruelty as a means of control

Pillar number eight: Inherent superiority versus inherent inferiority

Part four: The tentacles of caste. Brown eyes versus blue eyes

Chapter ten: Central miscasting

Chapter eleven: Dominant group status threat and the precarity of the highest rung

Chapter twelve: A scapegoat to beat the sins of the world

Chapter thirteen: The insecure Alpha and the purpose of an underdog

Chapter fourteen: The intrusion of caste in everyday life

Chapter fifteen: The urgent necessity of a bottom rung

Chapter sixteen: Last place anxiety: Packed in a flooding basement

Chapter seventeen: On the early front lines of caste

Chapter eighteen: Satchel Paige and the illogic of caste

Part five: The consequences of caste. Chapter nineteen: The Euphoria of Hate

Chapter twenty: The inevitable narcissism of caste

Chapter twenty-one: The German girl with the dark, wavy hair

Chapter twenty-two: The Stockholm Syndrome and the survival of the subordinate caste

Chapter twenty-three: Shock troops on the borders of hierarchy

Chapter twenty-four: Cortisol, telomeres and the lethality of caste

Part six: Backlash, Chapter twenty-five: A change in the script

Chapter twenty-six: Turning point and the resurgence of caste

Chapter twenty-seven: The symbols of caste

Chapter twenty-eight: Democracy on the ballot

Chapter twenty-nine: The price we pay for a caste system

Part seven: Awakening. Chapter thirty: Shedding the sacred thread

The Radicalization of the Dominant Caste

Chapter thirty-one: The heart is the last frontier

Epilogue: A world without caste.