Caste system
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Open Thread: From Murder to Mercy — The Midwives of Bihar
Open thread on BBC Eye’s The Midwife’s Confession, about rural midwives in Bihar who killed baby girls in the 1990s, and one survivor who returned.
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The material wages of caste
Razib Khan sets aside the arguments over caste, varna and jati and asks what caste has meant materially, for wealth and work.
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The time of the tribes cometh
