Senior journalist Manoj Mitta spent years researching colonial-era court rulings to uncover how India’s ruling elites, especially the Brahmins, fought to retain their privileges. His new book, Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India, chronicles how caste shaped India and the ways in which it lives on in new forms. In this interview with NewsClick, he talks about the themes he has explored in the book.
Manoj Mitta is a Delhi-based journalist focusing on law, human rights and social justice. A law graduate from Hyderabad, he has worked with the Times of India, the Indian Express and India Today. Mitta has written two critically acclaimed books on impunity for mass violence: When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 Carnage and Its Aftermath, co-authored with H.S. Phoolka (2007), and The Fiction of Fact-finding: Modi and Godhra (2014). His article on caste was published in 2007 in Writing a Nation: An Anthology of Indian Journalism, edited by Nirmala Lakshman.
