Author Ankit Kawade. One of the major errors we make when it comes to the question of caste is that we localise it: we think of it as something either geographically situated in the Indian subcontinent or legitimised by one form of religion. Caste is not solely an Indian problem even if its exemplary form can only be found here. Caste functions as a name for a process, whether social or philosophical, that legitimises inequality on the basis of metaphysical claims. This can be best understood when we realise that perhaps one of the greatest advocates for this metaphysical basis...