Caste and cricket: How celebrities enable inequality

Recently, Ravindra Jadeja, an Indian international cricketer, hit two fifties in India’s three-day tour match in England.

Off the field, late that night, he tweeted brandishing his Rajput caste identity: #RAJPUTBOYFOREVER. It became his most popular tweet ever, with more than 100,000 likes, 25,000 retweets and thousands of comments.

This tweet was an expression of Jadeja’s support for his fellow cricketer Suresh Raina who was criticised by some for claiming...