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Understanding power through caste: Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution to the sociology of law

Dr Babasaheb’s understanding of Indian society was pivotal: he was prescient in the dangers that loomed ahead, even after drafting the Indian Constitution; because caste-based inequality remains deeply entrenched in society and the post-Independence state did not go much beyond providing formal equality to the lower castes and other marginalised communities, Dr. Ambedkar was acutely aware of the continuing presence of upper-caste hegemony from society to politics and from culture to the economy

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Is Religious Terrorism a product of Western Modernity?

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Why was Assam’s Nellie massacre of 1983 not prevented, despite intimations of violence?

A long-buried report submitted to the state government in...

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“Communalisation” of Indian history around Padmavati, a fictitious character, has colonial roots: Irfan Habib

Strongly intervening in the “violent controversy" raging around the...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz and the de-Islamisation of a Muslim revolutionary

Faiz has often been seen as a Communist poet...

For too long, the West has expected Muslims to defend their faith from labels of violence

Perhaps it’s time that we appreciate the exasperation that...

Now Rajput groups want Bhansali to change ‘Padmavati’ title

Protests over “Padmavati” took a new turn today with...

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