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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.
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“Bhima Koregaon is a story of dalit-bahujan assertion”
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Let the world hear our stories of defiance and resistance to caste-violence: Dalit women at the UN
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Citizens’ Solidarity with Voices of Democracy – Against the Arrest of Five HR Activists
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