Caste Besides: I am a Fraction of the Same God
byDr Sanjay Pathak
About the Book
"It is only a difference of consciousness which makes one person different from the other."
Caste Besides is Dr Sanjay Pathak's poignant account of five generations navigating India's caste hierarchy, beginning with his great grandfather, his father a bamboo craftsman's son who defied poverty and became a college teacher and Director of Education, to himself, a doctor, psychologist and Medical Superintendent of a psychiatric hospital, and his children who also became doctors without seeking caste benefits yet achieved and success never quite silence the question: what caste are you from?
This is a story about the weight of inheritance and the price of rising above it, about families who build new lives, new names, new identities, only to find the past waiting quietly at the door.
Moving between a Himalayan village, colonial-era Shimla, and modern Gujarat's temple towns, this is a family saga of ambition, faith, and quiet defiance, bringing together memory, imagination, the essence of the Bhagavad Gita, and psychological insights into a memoir that asks what it costs to rise, and what refuses to be left behind.
Caste Besides is Dr Sanjay Pathak's poignant account of five generations navigating India's caste hierarchy, beginning with his great grandfather, his father a bamboo craftsman's son who defied poverty and became a college teacher and Director of Education, to himself, a doctor, psychologist and Medical Superintendent of a psychiatric hospital, and his children who also became doctors without seeking caste benefits yet achieved and success never quite silence the question: what caste are you from?
This is a story about the weight of inheritance and the price of rising above it, about families who build new lives, new names, new identities, only to find the past waiting quietly at the door.
Moving between a Himalayan village, colonial-era Shimla, and modern Gujarat's temple towns, this is a family saga of ambition, faith, and quiet defiance, bringing together memory, imagination, the essence of the Bhagavad Gita, and psychological insights into a memoir that asks what it costs to rise, and what refuses to be left behind.