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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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‘Jai Bhim’ and ‘Lal Salaam’ and How the Twain Shall Meet
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