caste
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Why I like to ask about caste
The author argues that asking about caste, like asking about income in America, touches what really matters, observing that a group agreeing about caste privilege turned out to contain no…
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Super30, Casteocracy & Blacked Up Hrithik Roshan
Reviewing the film Super 30, the author finds Hrithik Roshan blacking up to play an OBC emblematic of India’s ‘Casteocracy’, argues that the IIT and IIM system suits upper castes,…
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Comment of the Day:
A reader comment promoted to a post: it likens Dalits to Black Americans in the segregated South, and argues that Indian nationalism prizes territory over people while Pakistan is rooted…
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Would a Dalit Jinnah have gotten Dalitstan?
Asks whether Jinnah was simply the right man who happened to be Muslim, or whether the community would always have produced a saviour, and adds a reader comment likening Dalits…
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2 Hindus and grandmother of Hindus are the face of the Modern Left
Noting two Hindu-heritage candidates in the Democratic presidential field, the author asks what a Hindu is, favours a maximalist definition, and argues that upper castes should not monopolise what Hindu…
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Why it is very sad that racism arose in the US but not India-
The author argues caste is best seen as an institution that ring-fenced ancestry, so that low AASI rather than high ANI marks higher rank, and speculates on how class structure…
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Why I hate the term Brown
After watching Daughters of Destiny, the author argues ‘Brown’ is an offensive catch-all because it hides differences of shade and caste privilege, urging Dalit South Asians to claim ‘black’ so…
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Daughters of Destiny
Recommends the four-part Netflix series Daughters of Destiny, about a school founded by an Indian-American millionaire for Dalit girls in India.
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Genetic change, cultural coherency, and social structure
The author rejects a commenter’s claim that high R1a frequency in South Asia reflects non-paternity events, citing jati endogamy and uniform autosomal ancestry, and compares the Hui, whose Y chromosomes…
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Browncast Ep 46: the Professor Devji Podcast
A BrownCast episode with Professor Devji on how the BJP mobilises votes, the coded language of ‘appeasement’, Hindutva’s aim of removing state control of Hinduism, how it frames caste politics,…
