caste
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Caste in Buddhist Monastic Orders of Sri Lanka
Excerpts from a Colombo Telegraph article on how caste shaped schisms among Sri Lanka’s Buddhist monastic orders and how British rule exploited and preserved feudal structures. The poster adds no…
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The Story Of A Tamil Boy’s Revenge
An excerpt from a Colombo Telegraph story in which a father explains to his son how a rice trader uses social hierarchy and ritual to keep economic power over a…
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Density of Cows Worldwide
Starting from a map of cow density, the author asks how India became vegetarian, prefers Hindu to Muslim dynasties and Ashoka to Akbar, and argues caste, the greatest faultline after…
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Amartya Sen calls demonetisation despotic
X.T.M cites Amartya Sen’s attack on demonetisation, calling it a tax on the upper middle classes that India’s ultra-rich could avoid. He sees an oligarchic elite that adapts to every…
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Dhadak
X.T.M calls the film Dhadak, an inter-caste romance, excellent and important, and lists observations: the sympathetic Christian characters, the BJP-like villain father, and the odd fact that inter-caste matches usually…
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Caste and the 1,000 Families
X.T.M says he is suspicious when white liberals ally against caste, since caste was strengthened under colonial rule, and tells anecdotes of Indian women academics who say caste was used…
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Why am I an Untouchable
X.T.M recommends a HuffPost video of Sujatha Gidla speaking first-hand about being an Untouchable, noting that ‘Dalit’ is in some ways a euphemism and that he follows her usage.
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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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Dalits in Bangladesh
Razib Khan reports that five Dhaka samples in the 1000 Genomes data cluster with Tamil and Telugu Dalits, which he reads as showing descent from migrants who came to Bangladesh…
