Leaning into the Wisdom of Land to Recaste South Asian Privilege

This paper asks: Is there a way to use an anti-caste framework within an adage of death as equalizer to develop resistant practices in life. The paper explores how the author's experiential work with regenerative agriculture intersects with scholarship in South Asian American Studies and lived religions to offer some insights on rethinking caste privilege. The author uses an autoethnographic approach, which insists that a centering of self engage with intersections of sociopolitical, economic, and/or cultural dynamics of meaning and change. The paper takes on the privileges of caste status by interrogating such concepts as karma and reincarnation as passed through what is learned through lived experiences among U.S.-based South Asians born into and brought up with the savarna privileges of caste Hinduism.