'What is the Caste of Vikas?'

"IN a meme that's doing the rounds on social media, a woman in a village in Bihar is asked by a journalist if Vikas (development) has come to Bihar.

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She asks: what's the caste of Vikas? The history of caste politics in the state dates back to the Janeyu Andolan of the 1920s, when Yadavs and other lower castes started Sanskritising themselves by donning the socalled sacred Brahmanical thread. This led to violence between the Yadav, Kurmi and Koeri castes and the upper castes.