The forms of hegemony, chasms, exclusions, and embedded violence of social relations in public challenge the conception of public space, and publicness is based on universal access to all. How public space is made and reconfigured in a Dalit-dominant neighbourhood, where Dalits and upper castes share an unavoidable proximity. Especially, where Dalits wield political power and dominance. Focusing on the caste experiences of Dalits in the neighbourhood and beyond, in the city, it foregrounds the contexts and conditions in which (in)civility emerges or recedes in inter-caste interactions in public. The chapter argues that when neighbourhood relations and sociability are formed under enforced spatial proximity, it conjures the paradox of caste's “absent” presence.