Caste discrimination manifests for Dalit students studying abroad across multiple areas of student life: 1. Accommodation and Shared Living Spaces Pre-arrival Vetting: Segregation frequently begins before students arrive on campus, where university WhatsApp groups are used by dominant-caste students to deduce backgrounds and avoid rooming with Dalit peers. Dietary Policing and Kitchen Hostility: Shared living spaces often become hostile over food and purity notions. Students report being rebuked for storing meat in shared refrigerators alongside provisions of "pure vegetarians" or having flatmates explicitly refuse to share kitchen facilities. 2. Invasive Identity Screening ("Covert Toolkit") Mundane Profiling: Dominant-caste peers use subtle indicators such as mobile phone ringtones, physical appearance, linguistic tone or diction, and questions about vegetarianism to determine caste. Phys...