Caste is compared to racism only through descent-based discrimination, not identity of forms

Evidence

To compound the problem, caste, unlike say apartheid, is not colour-coded, and therefore not easy to see. Also, unlike apartheid, the caste system has buoyant admirers in high places. They argue, quite openly, that caste is a social glue that binds as well as separates people and communities in interesting and, on the whole, positive ways. That it has given Indian society the strength and the flexibility to withstand the many challenges it has had to face. The Indian establishment blanches at the idea that discrimination and violence on the basis of caste can be compared to racism or to apartheid. It came down heavily on Dalits who tried to raise caste as an issue at the 2001 World Conference against Racism in Durban, insisting that caste was an “internal matter”. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 41

Categorization

• XREF: The India domestication-of-caste-politics theme connects to the reader’s prior coverage of how regimes neutralize caste via moral panic and ‘internal matter’ framing.