Caste Question and Marxism

This is a compilation of 9 important papers presented in the Fourth Arvind Memorial Seminar held in Chandigarh from 12–16 March 2013. The caste question, particularly the Dalit question, is still one such burning question of Indian society, without the process of whose resolution, the class unity of the toiling masses and the success of their emancipatory-project cannot be envisaged. Therefore, it becomes imperative for all those who, even today, consider Marxism to be the guiding principle of revolutionary practice in true terms (instead of treating it as a tool of ruminating academic discourse or that of merely vote bank…