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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.
कौन दे रहा है रोहित वेमुला के दलित होने को चुनौती
गुंटुर के जिलाधिकारी ने अपनी रिपोर्ट में रोहित वेमुला...
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भूमि अधिकार और स्वाभिमान की लड़ाई इस देश की लड़ाई - जिग्नेश मेवाणी
यूपी में गूंजा ‘गाय की पूंछ तुम रखो, हमको हमारी जमीन दो’
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यूपी में गूंजा ‘गाय की पूंछ तुम रखो, हमको हमारी जमीन दो’
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To Live & Die as a Dalit: Rohith Vemula
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हैदराबाद केंद्रीय विवि के शोध-छात्र रोहित वेमुला की डायरी...
Why Gujarat appears to have fallen off the news map over the last two years
The almost-total blackout of the Dalit protests in Una...
‘आज तक’ में गैया…पत्रकारिता की मैया….दैया रे दैया….!
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बाबा रामदेव क्या कम थे जो सबसे तेज़ ''आज तक''...
आपने क्या सोचा था कि सिर्फ दलित और मुसलमान मरेंगे?
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With Love from Una: JNU’s Pradeep Narwal, on the thread that connects Dalit and student struggles
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एक शहरी, हिंदू सवर्ण, पुरुष का कबूलनामा
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मैं एक शहरी, उत्तर भारतीय, सवर्ण, हिन्दू, मध्यम वर्ग,...
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