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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Random House, 2020, 496 pp. In a letter written to W.E.B. Du Bois in 1946, B.R. Ambedkar, the Dalit scholar, activist, and statesman, expressed a keen interest in the plight of black Americans. “I have been a student of the Negro problem and have read your writings throughout,” he wrote. “There is so much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in India and of the position of the Negroes in America that the study of the latter is not only natural but necessary.” This was not empty sentiment. At roughly the same time that he wrote to Du Bois, Ambedkar was in the process of outlining several constitutional provisions on behalf of his political party, the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation. That document, which contained language aimed at eliminating caste discrimination in India, owed much to its American sources: the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875, which Ambedkar had

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