Paper short abstract:

This paper is an attempt to think about the futures of caste with feet firmly in the present and the past.

Paper long abstract:

The paper works with a guarded suggestion that the 'lives' of caste could be undergoing major transformations in the present. Accordingly, that some of the certainties that the critical caste scholarship holds on to today may be constraining us to see its futures. Taking Ambedkar's The Annihilation of Caste as the revolutionary manifesto for modern times, the paper seeks to ask what are we to make of his project today, and to see what could be the new avatars of caste in the foreseeable future.