Researchers now lost to history have sought to understand the infrastructure of our divisions - racial hierarchies. It takes a singular depth of commitment to understand the caste system in the hope of defeating it. It becomes a challenge as we seek to understand that our lives depend on developing this understanding. We can categorise ourselves but…Knowing the cultural, sociological and political meaning of caste, and how the category you are assigned to fits into a racialised - that is to say hierarchical - social structure, is just as important, if not more so!