Originally Published in Madras Courier
Editorial Note
Caste has traveled with the South Asian Hindu population. Its global manifestations are ugly offshoots of an even more hideous system bound to impact the rest of the world.
The caste system, once confined mainly to the South Asian Hindu population, has now gone global. Dr.B.R. Ambedkar—the champion crusader against this social evil, who termed casteism as not merely a ‘division of labor,’ but consummately as a ‘division of laborers’—had prophesied decades ago that, ‘if Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Indian caste will become a world problem.’