Forty-four people, including women and children, were killed when a hut was burned in Kilvenmani, Tamil Nadu, during a conflict over agricultural wages. Dalit workers had organized against landlords. The massacre exposed the violence sustaining caste hierarchy and labour exploitation. In Chapter 6's comparative framework, caste is a distinct historical system of inherited superiority and inferiority.
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The Kilvenmani massacre occurred in the context of Dalit agricultural workers' organizing over wages.
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The violence targeted a community involved in a labour conflict shaped by caste hierarchy.