Ravikant Kisana's ‘Meet the Savarnas’ is an important contribution to the field of critical caste studies, aiming to reverse the gaze from the marginalised to the privileged castes.
Caste in India is mostly researched and reported from the experience of the oppressed. Caste as a privilege is not understood well. How do caste elites respond to modernity? How do they understand culture, intimacy, love and tradition? Were their ideas, institutions and imaginations ever even capable of delivering upon the Great Indian Dream?
In Meet the Savarnas, Ravikant Kisana goes where few authors have dared: to document the lives, the concerns and crises of India’s urban elites, to frame the savarnas as a distinct social cohort, one that operates within itself and yet is oblivious of its own social rules, privileges and systems.
Unpacking Privilege: The Other Side of Caste - The Wire
20/08/2025