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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.
ब्राह्मण टीचर नहीं दे रहा यादव बच्चे को दाखिला
ब्राह्मणवाद स्कूलों में निचले स्तर पर आज भी इस...
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भोपाल। बैकलॉग भर्ती मामले में मुख्यमंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान...
डेल्टा मेघवाल के घर से शुरू होगी ‘दलित महिला स्वाभिमान यात्रा’
राजस्थान में दलित महिलाओं पर लगातार हर तरह से...
Unspent Money For Dalits/Tribals, $42.6 Billion = 8 Times Agri Budget
Poonam, a resident of Pachkol village in Chhindwara district...
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उनके पति दीपक की फ़ेसबुक पोस्ट। उन्होंने भी लेक्चरर...
Controversy Over Dalit Students Being Expelled Only Over Anti-Modi Sloganeering
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Image Courtesy: Livemint.comExpelled students part of anti-Modi sloganeering: Ambedkar...
‘Let Your Hindutva Agenda go to Hell’: Jignesh Mevani Just Before He Was Detained
The Dalit leader was speaking at the Dalit Swabhiman...
हैदराबाद सेंट्रल यूनिवर्सिटी की कत्लगाह में इस बार ओबीसी छात्र की बलि
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हैदराबाद सेंट्रल यूनिवर्सिटी से एक और छात्र के आत्महत्या...
Why did Phule describe Amit Shah’s Vaman as “mean, treacherous and ungrateful”?
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DEVELOPING STORY: Dalit Leader Jignesh Mewani detained by Gujarat Police
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