Caste: the origins of our discontents

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.