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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.
Idea Exchange: Romila Thapar Answers Gopal Guru on Dharma and the Past
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Historian Dr. Romila Thapar replies to Prof. Gopal Guru's...
Bhim Yatra: ‘Stop Killing Us in Dry Latrines, Sewers and Septic Tanks’
Protestors set fire to containers representing 'killer' septic tanks (...
Targeted by Bajrang Dal goons in Nagpur, Fearless Kanhaiya Kumar unhurt, unfazed
Photo Courtesy: ANIFirst they threw stones at the car...
Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Scathing Attacks on Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra
Babasaheb Ambedkar is equally critical of the Muslim League...
First Person: How the Police Battered and Brutalised Arrested Students and Professors of UoH
I am an M Phil research scholar, from the...
Appoint priests from all castes, follow Ambedkar
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Monopolistic and exclusivist reservation of the posts of priests...
Dignity for Those Who Clean Our Filth
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Stop Killing Us, the Bhim Yatra of India’s Manual...
I want Justice Not Character Assassination: Delta’s Father, Mahendra Meghwal
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Releasing a Fact-Finding Report into the Murder of Delta...
Gujarat Dalit Clerk’s Suicide: End Caste Discrimination Say Colleagues
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Ketan Koradia’s father Dalpat, mother Jasu (second from right)...
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