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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.
Challenging Heterogeneity in Universities
This short essay aims to deconstruct and challenge the...
Dalits, Adivasis off the Radar: NDA II Budget
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A total of Rs 75,764 crore has been denied...
‘What is happening in India today is similar to the McCarthy era’: Partha Chatterjee
There is something ominously new in the manner in...
Why Caste is the Crux and Hindutva’s Fall Imminent
The return of BJP to power in 2014 was...
Nearly 400 Scientists ‘Deeply Disappointed’ With JNU VC
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Nearly 400 scientists and academics, including many eminent ones...
दलित स्त्री आंदोलन; चिंतन और संघर्ष की चुनौतियां
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We are paying the price of holding our heads high: Shital Sathe
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Singing songs of ordinary people, especially Dalits, Shital Sathe...
Stop the deification and appropriation of Babasaheb: Dalit youth to the Sangh Parivar
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On January 22, 2016, graduate students of the Babasaheb...
Caste Reverberates on TISS Campus, counter allegations against Dalit student made
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Through January 2016, the campus of the Tata Institute...
Why Ambedkar rejected, outright Gandhi’s views on Temple entry
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