caste
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Looking back at 2019 Maharashtra election
Looking back a year after the 2019 Maharashtra election, the author lists lessons: imagery and strong leaders matter, caste still counts, Shiv Sena left the NDA for survival rather than…
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Brown Pundits Browncast episodes 128 and 129
Two BrownCast episodes: Jasper Gregory on Vietnam, from coronavirus to BLM to K-Pop, and Abhinav Prakash on the Hathras rape, how it relates to caste politics in Uttar Pradesh and…
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Population structure in West Bengal and Bangladesh
Razib Khan reads a Genomes Asia 100K preprint for its Birbhum samples, noting that West Bengal samples sit west of Bangladeshi ones, Bengali Brahmins look distinct and Kayasthas look generic.…
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Rape Culture, Indian Edition
Omar Ali responds to excerpts on sexual violence against Dalit women in East Punjab, accepting that such cases occur across the subcontinent with police often another source of oppression, and…
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The practice of untouchability by district
Razib Khan shares a district map of untouchability practice, taken via Alice Evans from a paper on its continuing practice in India, noting that regional patterns outweigh education, income or…
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Brahmanism Versus Brahminism
The Emissary separates Brahman, the metaphysical absolute, from the brahmin priestly caste, and says he prefers ‘Vedic Dharma’ to ‘Brahmanism’, which he finds fair as a label for scriptural Hinduism,…
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About Brahmin Privilege: Education, Brits and Chitpavans
Nachiketa argues that crude comparisons of Brahmin privilege with white slave-owning ignore the concrete, caste-correlated privileges of wealth, education, connections and urban background, and examines educational attainment as an inherited…
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Unheard objections
Answering objections to his piece on Brahmins and white privilege, the author says caste is not a US issue but Indian Americans are unrepresentative: in a private survey of 2,000,…
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Why do Pakistanis not want to be descended from Hindus?
Razib Khan argues genetic data show Punjabis and Sindhis have almost no West Asian ancestry, then discusses the ideological contest between Pakistanis and Hindu nationalists over Pakistanis’ Hindu origins, including…
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Ancient Pakistanis were Hindu
Razib Khan reads a preprint on British Pakistanis as showing jati-like endogamy beginning 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, plus a later wave from cousin marriage, and argues this rejects the…
