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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.
Whither Article 15?
Article 15 of The Constitution Of India 1949 prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. But in practice…
Remembering Jyotiba Phule, on His 189th Birth Anniversary, April 11
First Published on: January 13, 2016 Remembering Jyotiba Phule, on...
Disease distancing, not social distancing during Covid-19
Prof. Kancha Ilaiah raises concerns about casteism and untouchability amidst social distancing measures
Dalits, OBCs forced to bury their deceased by the roadside
Caste-based discrimination coupled with usurping of land by corporates and upper castes are stealing the dignity of the dead in the community
Dalits attacked by 300 men in UP village, 13 upper-caste men arrested
More than 300 men from the Thakur community attacked villagers with sticks and hammers mostly women, after a fallout during a Bhim Katha event organized by the Dalits
Demolition of caste system essential for the survival of democracy in India
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A letter that should shake our world: Dalit scholar suicide triggers outrage
First Published on: January 18, 2016Rohith (right) carrying a...
How to talk about caste and casteism
A step-by-step guide for Savarnas to acknowledge and address an age-old evil, and become part of the solution
Rohith Vemula March: The Caste Turn for Student Delhites?
First published on February 23, 2016Rohith Vemula gives them...
Calling Smriti Irani’s Bluff: Twisted Truths in Parliament
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