What I find interesting about untouchables is how Bahka behavior is affected by this racial formation created through a caste sytem. A society full of division and unequality, where there is an idea of an inferior and superior race, class, and social status.

This paradign created by this racial and social caste system has Bahka wishing to be an Englishmen and enduring punishment by being an "Untouchable". "The grass is always greener on the other side right"? He has been through so much you would think he would grow up to be cold and soulless like some of his peers but he isn't. When the kid got hit with the rock and he was bleeding asking for help everyone turned the other cheek except for Bahka. Why is that? Why is it also even after this good deed he was ridicueled by his parents for it?

We see that the idea of racial formation is being forced on bahka by his own parents. This is what colonization at work. The motives of divide and conquer is at play here with the lower class choosing to expand the idea of who is superior within their own class