Caste in Indian cities: Why urbanisation has not brought equality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HOmXiaE0Fg Frontline Magazine Vakulabharanam challenges the popular belief that urbanisation dissolves caste hierarchies. Drawing on census data and comparative urban research, he shows how Indian cities remain deeply segregated by caste, class, and religion even when they appear socially mixed on the surface... Why caste does not disappear in cities and how it reorganises itself
-How urban segregation works through housing, labour, and credit markets
-What mixed neighbourhoods can (and cannot) achieve
-Drawing parallels between caste segregation in India and racial segregation in the US
-The historical roots of urban inequality in cities like Hyderabad and Mumbai
-Why “world-class” city visions often deepen exclusion
-What fighting caste discrimination in cities realistically looks like today
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