The introduction provides the conceptual starting points to understand the complex raced, casteized, and gendered labor stratifications that emerge as brown saviors conduct their work. Specifically, Shankar argues that the brown savior actually reproduces many of the same racialized values, ideologies, and labor stratifications associated with who and how to help that have been passed down from the colonial period while also masking other operations of power behind the racial politics of global brownness. In the case of India, these operations of power center largely on the transnational labor politics of caste. In making this argument, Shankar theorizes the racial and caste politics of brownness and applies these theories to the particularities of the help economies as they have emerged over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.