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Whenever any conversation around caste takes place, it is usually attributed to the rural and educated domains of India where the ingrained bias of the people regarding caste identities still persists. However, on the question of urban India and casteism within those spaces, it is vehemently denied that urban educated spaces do not “see” caste at all. Article 17 of the India constitution prohibits untouchability, however a lack of push towards the abolition of the caste system has led to similar manifestations of casteism and untouchability in a myriad of ways and forms. A clear pattern of deaths by suicides, college expulsions, faculty resignations in premier institutions of education, the beacon of modernity and urbanised ethos, goes on to bust the myth of educational spaces being caste-free in the way they function. This article attempts to trace the trajectory of casteism that is rampant in highly acclaimed educational institutions of Indian, in order to articulate the hypocrisy of the said institutions to be educational while participating or facilitating such practices at large.
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