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From Our Own Correspondent: Opting to go lower caste

27/02/2016

Opting to go lower caste

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Opting to go lower caste

Downgrading your caste to get privileges in India.

Presented by Kate Adie. Downgrading your caste to get privileges in India, and other stories from Egypt, the US, Russia and Cuba.

The human stories behind the headlines. In this edition, we hear from India, where protests deprived ten million Delhi residents of their water. Members of the Jat caste want to force the government to reclassify them as lower-caste, so they can get quotas for government jobs and study places. Used Field Marshall for sale - the things you find on eBay in Egypt, when locals take the president at his word.
What happens when a Trump supporter meets a young Muslim refugee for brunch in Alabama? Our Moscow correspondent gets a distinctly chilly welcome in Siberia, and no, it's nothing to do with the weather. And arriving at the airport in Havana, it's an event in itself.

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