This book is absolute propaganda of the White Empire, as descibed in the Review of this book it’s movie version, Origins:
“It is therefore not unreasonable to scrutinize Caste (book) and Origin (movie) especially since their elite individual and institutional backers amplify their impact far beyond mere book or movie ticket sales. Few can match the credibility of an Oprah Winfrey or Barack Obama endorsement, especially if a Ford Foundation lavishes $10 million of the film’s $38 million budget after a single phone call. The tropes Caste and Origin recycle carry a social, intellectual, and political authority that neither Seth MacFarlane, Katherine Mayo, nor any online troll who’s posted a shithole India meme will ever have. It can’t go without notice that Origin was primarily financed by a nonprofit that also supports multiple activists, who along with their Ivory Tower associates use their connections and credibility to promote an array of policies designed to single out Indian and Hindu Americans at school, work, and in communities throughout the country.
The continued dominance of the miserable shithole India trope, even when shrouded in Progressive politics and “good intentions”, is not without consequence. At best, it traps Americans into stained, anachronistic perceptions of an India unresponsive to changing realities. At worst, it creates the moral justification to see Indians and Hindus as little more than casteist streetshitters, precisely the dehumanization Wilkerson and DuVernay seek to prevent.”
Wilkerson and DuVernay are tools of the White Empire, doing its bidding in denigrating, Indians and Hindus. This is part of a larger strategy to undermine India and its rise as it is set to becomes the world’s 3rd largest economy by 2050 and the world’s largest economy by 2075 ahead of the US and China. The strategy to break India is outlined in the book Snakes in the Ganga by Rajiv Malhotra. In this book, Malhotra exposes the “snakes” who aid and abet institutions such as Harvard University and the Ford Foundation in undermining India. We know that Wilkerson has association with both institutions.
Malhotra also offers a critical perspective on Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. One of the main points he raises concerns Wilkerson’s application of the caste framework to American society, particularly her comparison between the social structures of race in the United States and caste in India. Malhotra argues that Wilkerson’s analysis is reductive and overlooks the complexities of caste in the Indian context, especially its historical dimensions.
He suggests that by drawing direct parallels between race relations in America and the caste system in India, Wilkerson neglects key differences and imposes a Western framework that doesn’t fully capture the nuances of the Indian reality. He critiques this approach as an oversimplification that contributes to misunderstandings of both race and caste, emphasizing that this conflation serves certain ideological goals, particularly in promoting divisive identity politics globally.
It is clear that Wilkeson did not conduct the most basic research on the caste system in India, not even mentioning the fact that caste was introduced to India by the British, and was never part of Hindu scriptures and traditions. Secondly, she has not done any research into the strides that India has made in eliminating the caste system and the fact that India has lifted millions out of poverty and is now the world’s 5th largest economy, its GDP growing at a rate of 7% per annum. Thirdly, blaming Hindus for originating the caste system, which she claims has evolved into racism, simply absolves the White Empire and her masters from any responsibility. The book contains shallow anecdotal references. There is no academic research whatsoever around caste and the impact of colonialism in India. Has Wilkerson even consulted the foremost Indic scholar and authority on the caste system, Dr. Meenakshi Jain?
The contradiction is that Wilkerson is sympathetic to communities going through discrimination at the hands of the US yet she does not extend the same sympathy to communities in India that went through 1,000 years of Islamic invasion followed by 200 years of British occupation. During Britain’s occupation of India alone, over 55 million Indians, were genocided by famines orchestrated by Winston Churchill. Britain introduced the caste system to economically exploit Indians. That exploitation was so successful the Britain pillaged £45 trillion during its 200 year invasion of India. India went from contributing 30% of global trade prior to British occupation, to less than 2% after the British were kicked out. India went from a world superpower to an impoverished nation with the British legacy of caste and dire poverty.
Wilkerson is entering dangerous territory. We have already seen the online hate campaign against Indians and Hindus translate into acts of violence such as the vandalism of Hindu temples, and recently, the murder of an Indian man in the UK. We have seen this rhetoric before, in Nazi Germany against the Jews.
Wilkerson’s book is racist towards Indians and Hindus, and is nothing but a sophisticated extension of the “India no toilet” memes that we see on the Internet.
