In 2018, crowds descended on a small village in the Indian state of Maharashtra to mark the 200th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Koregaon, in which lower-caste Indian troops fighting on behalf of the British East India Company successfully overcame local upper-caste rulers. Ironically, given that their victory fortified British colonial power, the battle came to be remembered as a win for the oppressed—a symbol of India’s desperate struggle against caste prejudice. The Caste Con Census,