By Aaron Flanagan Phoolan Devi was born into an abysmal, pre-ordained fate on the wrong side of India’s caste system. Indians having their slum homes razed to make way for Commonwealth games infra-structure share Devi’s misfortune in being born unlucky. The caste system, like Hinduism, is largely peculiar to India. The Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, organises Indians into four categories: Brahmin (priests), Kshatriyas/Rathaestar (warrior-kings), Vaishya (traders-craftmen), shudra (workers-labours), and then outside this, the Harijan (untouchables). The Harijans are typically slum dwellers. …