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Class, Caste, and the Boarding Pass
Why is class the one hierarchy we're not supposed to name out loud — yet airlines sell it to us at the gate, no apology required? This episode starts with a listener's question about that back door and follows it into the harder case: the Indian caste system, where varna ideology sits on top of jati machinery, marriage enforces the boundary, and the state classifies people by caste to run the world's largest affirmative action program. Along the way: the Cagot of the Basque regions, Elizabethan silk laws that kept getting reissued, Tokugawa Japan's merchants with money and no rank, and…
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