The Formation behind the Creation of the ‘Other’ – Caste Casting

This article taking caste as a site of struggle in India explicates how it is reproduced in a dominant and ultra-conservative manner. Caste Casting in India has undergone a historical transition and the article conceptualise the same in the backdrop of how godly figures change, especially in a right-wing ideology propagated nation. Not only such a casting creates a dominant discourse where the ‘dominated’ retreat as ‘Others’, pushed away from the everyday settlements, but also it creates a division to an entire nation which otherwise holds the secular fabric in its constitution. The same is delved upon taking events as representations to caste casting. The paper employs a political economy framework to explicate caste casting in the backdrop of a creation of the ‘other’ through taking events, gods, politics and its interaction with caste, where culture and religiosity finally ends up becoming essential aids for caste casting.