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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.
UP Police book FIR against senior journalist, under multiple sections including SC/ST act
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‘Convenient racism’, says Irfan Pathan, pointing to discrimination based on faith and colour
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Dalit men assaulted, paraded with footwear around their neck in Uttar Pradesh
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Uttar Pradesh: Dalit teen allegedly shot by upper caste men for praying at village temple
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OBCs and their due in reservations in medical courses
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Junagadh couple allegedly killed in caste-based murder amid national lockdown
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Remembering Balbir Singh Sr
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Muslims all over India are being targeted, attacked and even boycotted, rendering them increasingly vulnerable
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