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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.
I will not take my husband’s body till all accused are arrested: Minaxiben Maheshwari
Dalit Lawer Devji Maheshwari, was a senior activist of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF)
Uttar Pradesh’s alleged ‘Brahmin victimhood’ fuels saviour complex in Opposition parties
Not surprisingly, Samajwadi Party, Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party, have all spoke up for the plight of Brahmins, who are now demanding ‘weapons’ to ‘protect themselves
Combat caste-based discrimination: IAAAC to US tech CEOs
Indian-American anti-caste group urges companies to include as a factor in training about diversity and inclusion
Thakurs deny Dalit woman cremation, police initiate probe
The woman’s body was forced to be taken off the pyre as members of Thakur community objected
Nat woman denied cremation at ‘upper’ caste funeral ground in UP
Family was forced to remove the body from the pyre, and local officials appeared to support caste-based segregation “to maintain peace and tranquility”
ISKCON’s sanitised version of the caste system does not foster progress of the lower castes
Even while saying that the caste system is based on psycho-physical properties, it propagates the caste system which must be abolished by the roots
Karnataka’s Brahmins can get caste and income certificates, avail 10 percent EWS benefits
Karnataka State Brahmin Development Board had been set up before 2018 Assembly elections, by JD(S)-Congress govt
Mahatma Gandhi, Race and Caste
It is important to distinguish between Gandhi's formative years and when he became a truly enlightened and inspiring leader
Outlawed caste-based militia Ranvir Sena issues death threats over social media in Bihar!
The organization had been banned by the Bihar government in 1995 and has allegedly carried out the killings of over 400 Dalits from 1995 to 1999
SC/ST Commission in UP headless for over 7 months
The state Commission has over 7,000 pending applications and no Chairman to look into them
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