ABSTRACT
Sociologically, the study of caste as a persistent system of inequality despite its apparently improbable future against the backdrop of a democratic and capitalistic restructuring of Indian society can shed light on the reproduction mechanisms of social inequality, decentering theory building from the European and Global Northern context. For such an endeavor, it seems unavoidable to relate social inequality to a variety of spatial contexts. Not only is there a pertinent relevance of distinguishing and relating rural and urban contexts in India, the question also needs to be raised as to how much inequalities abide by a strictly national context and how those different national and subnational spatial contexts relate to wider translocal, transnational and global spaces.
