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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.
In Banaskantha, caste distinctions and prejudices have refused to be washed away with flood waters
As I was driving down the road from village...
Forcible Displacement of Adivasis in Narmada basin: SC Intervenes
No Forcible displacement without full compliance with all orders...
Major victory for anti-caste movement in Maharashtra
"We believe caste to be superstition, it holds no...
70-years-old Dalit woman beaten up, threatened with murder by dominant caste men
Name of the Victims: Maggidi Buchhamma, 70 years and...
NBA Activists Detained at 3 Locations: MP
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Protesting Inadequate Rehabilitation, around 600 NBA activists and people...
Dalits Claim Back ‘Promised Land’ under Mevani’s Leadership: Gujarat
As Dalits Plant Flag of Self-Respect under Mevani...
Appropriation or Assimilation: Dalits can now be Naga Sadhus
The Sangh Parivar has denied that the decision by...
When Zohrabi failed to Return Home, Concerned Neighbours found her Confined & Abused: Urban India Throws Up Bitter Class Bias
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Azadi Koonch Begins in Gujarat
Thousands gather from across the country to demand rights...
Dalit & Landless are all Farmers who Till the Land, Need a Fusion of the Energies of the Oppressed: Yogendra Yadav
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The Definition of Farmer Must Change, He who Works...
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