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The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow
Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.
Violence against Dalits exposed: brutal police torture and arson attack shake BJP-ruled states
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From the death of a teenage boy in police custody to the destruction of homes in Bihar, the latest incidents highlight severe shortcomings in law enforcement and governance in protection of the marginalised communities
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh witness shocking incidents of Caste-Based Violence
50 Dalit families face social boycott in Karnataka's Yadgir for pursuing POCSO complaint against accused belonging to upper caste; ban imposed on Dalits entry & assault of Dalit man for entering temple in Bagalkot; 55-year-old mother beaten in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool over son’s inter-caste marriage
Bengali-speaking Muslims of Santhal Pargana are Indians, not Bangladeshi infiltrators: Citizens
Rebutting the slur-filled propaganda being consciously unleashed by the...
Cruelty for Caste: Dalit youth, Scholar, Student targeted in shameful attacks
In Pune, Dalit youth attacked, barred from temple for practicing Buddhism; BHU scholar faces casteist abuse from professor; school teacher beats Dalit student with pipe in Meerut
Importance of classifying Scheduled Castes for reservation: Sanjeev Khudshah, Dalit writer
In a conversation with me, Ambedkarite author Sanjeev Khudshah explores the importance of classifying Scheduled Castes for reservation purposes.
Escalating anti-Dalit violence in India: A disturbing surge of brutality and discrimination since July 2024
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From brutal assaults to systemic abuse- a two-month chronicle of Dalit atrocities across India reveals a crisis of justice and equality.
Lack of securing tribal land rights in Andhra ‘exacerbating’ vulnerability to climate change
In the tribal areas of the Eastern Ghats of...
In MP, Three Dalit Youths of a Single Family Are Dead. How Has the Police Responded?
A fact-finding report has pointed out the implicit bias that had characterised police action since the family's very first complaint in 2019 against assault, threats and torture by dominant caste groups.
Caste and Indifference: Two separate incidents of rape against minor Dalit girls in UP and Bihar receive no media coverage, protest or outrage
How can we combat violence against women when media and public outrage fall silent when the victims belong to marginalised communities?
TISS authorities ‘targeting’ Adivasis, Dalits: Eviction notice to PhD scholars
In a scathing letter to the Director, the Dean of Student Affairs, and the Associate Dean of Student Affairs of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, members* of the civil rights group All India Inquilabi Youth and Students Alliance (ALIYSA) have sought immediate withdrawal of the recent eviction notices to PhD scholars to vacate the campus in 24 hours. The letter disputes the claim by the TISS authorities that the scholars have taken beyond 5 years of time in completing their doctoral work.
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