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Inferno of Caste is a groundbreaking academic work that explores the deeply rooted system of caste through the diverse lenses of psychology. Moving beyond historical, political, and sociological analyses, this book ventures into the psychological domain to examine how caste hierarchies are internalized, reproduced, and sustained across generations and institutions.
Positioned at the intersection of clinical, cognitive, developmental, and organizational psychology, the book constructs a multi-dimensional framework to understand caste not just as a social reality but as a lived psychological experience. Drawing on empirical research, theory, and personal narratives, it reveals how caste shapes minds, relationships, and behavior-often beneath conscious awareness.
The book opens with the developmental psychology of caste, showing how children are socialized into caste roles through family, culture, media, and education. It explains how constructs like purity, pollution, inferiority, and shame become embedded in the psyche from an early age, shaping identity, self-esteem, and moral reasoning.
In cognitive psychology, Inferno of Caste explores how mental shortcuts, schemas, and biases perpetuate caste-based thinking. It delves into cognitive distortions, memory biases, and stereotype threat, revealing how caste persists through unconscious processes. The book also discusses how implicit bias and identity-driven cognition influence behavior in caste-marked environments.
The clinical psychology section addresses the mental health effects of caste oppression, including trauma, depression, anxiety, and intergenerational psychological wounds among oppressed caste communities. It critiques the discipline's blind spots and calls for a culturally responsive, caste-aware therapeutic practice rooted in social justice and healing.
In organizational psychology, the book examines caste in the workplace-manifested through hiring discrimination, microaggressions, and systemic exclusion. It shows how organizations often replicate caste hierarchies under the guise of meritocracy and suggests strategies for fostering inclusion and psychological safety at work.
Two bold chapters push the boundaries of conventional discourse. One frames caste as a collective psychological disorder-not in the oppressed, but in the psyche of the oppressor. Using theories of moral disengagement, social dominance, and authoritarianism, it argues that casteism reflects a pathology of power and moral failure. Another chapter adopts a holistic psychological lens, integrating indigenous knowledge, trauma-informed approaches, and transpersonal psychology to envision pathways of healing, liberation, and expanded consciousness.
Inferno of Caste is both a scholarly contribution and a call to action. It challenges psychologists, educators, mental health professionals, and social reformers to confront caste not merely as a cultural or legal issue, but as a psychological force embedded in institutions and minds. Accessible yet rigorous, the book expands psychology's role as a tool for social critique, resistance, and transformation.
By bringing caste into the heart of psychological inquiry, this work exposes the invisible mechanisms that perpetuate oppression and offers pathways to individual and collective emancipation. It invites readers to engage deeply-with themselves, with society, and with the urgent need to reimagine a world free from caste-based domination.
