bhadralok
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Who Sees? A Caste Audit of an Anonymous Elite Indian Hospital
A surname-level audit of an anonymised elite Indian hospital, and what it tells us about reservation, fellowship capture, and how prestige sub-specialties reproduce themselves outside the reach of the Mandal…
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The Hindification of East India
Bihar, Odisha, Assam, and now Bengal: the old Bengal Presidency votes as a single saffron block. A century after the bhadralok forced Curzon to reunite Bengal, their grandchildren have completed…
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Partition’s Impact on India’s Regional Quadrants
Argues that Partition reshaped five regional quadrants of undivided India. It fragmented Punjab and the Indo-Gangetic heartland, diminished Bengal by splitting Kolkata from Dhaka, cut Bombay off from Karachi, and…
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Merry Christmas!
Razib Khan reads the genetics of a sample with Sadgop and Baidya parents as showing that Baidya are not Brahmins who lost caste, since Bengali Brahmins shift toward the steppe,…
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On being an “upper caste” “Muslim”
Razib Khan reflects on being called an ‘upper-caste Muslim’, arguing that although his ancestry may be largely Kayastha and Brahmin, caste is irrelevant to his family’s identity as generic Bengali…
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Bhadralok are made not born
Razib Khan plots two West Bengali samples, a Kayastha and a Brahmin, and finds the Kayastha resembles Bangladeshi samples with less East Asian ancestry, which supports the view that Kayasthas…
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Did your Ma teach you to say that?
Reacting to a Trinamool leader’s threat that his men would commit rape in the homes of opponents, the post argues that Bengali men’s liberal self-image and Bengal’s cult of mother…
