The Shudras: Vision for a New Path weaves together multiple dimensions of the predicament of India's productive castes in the spiritual, social, political, economic, philosophical and historical spheres. It reformulates their current position as well as future pathways. It strives to provoke Shudras-including regional political party leaders-all over India to realise their unique historical role in fighting unequal caste structures. And it gives a call to resist Hindutva, in which they have no free, equal space with the Dwija castes. At a juncture when the Shudra castes are regionalised, and the Dwijas have become 'national', the fifth volume of the Rethinking India series, in collaboration with the Samruddha Bharat Foundation, seeks to bring home the accurate picture of their marginalised status in all critical structures of the nation. It posits that the emancipation and progress of the Shudras are vital to sustain Ambedkar's constitutional democracy and move towards socio-spiritual equality.