caste
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Genetical clarifications on caste
Following an earlier post, a geneticist uses jati and varna to avoid the European word caste, and argues South Asia’s population-genetic structure is unusual because groups remain genetically distinct, unlike…
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Genetical observations on caste
Citing David Reich’s book, Razib Khan says most Indian jatis have been genetically endogamous for about 2,000 years and varna groups differ in steppe ancestry, which he thinks undermines the…
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Caste in Pakistan
A reader comment, signed Abdul Majeed, argues that caste matters greatly in Pakistan despite appearing invisible in big cities, shaping elections, marriages and dealings with bureaucrats, and accuses Sir Syed…
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Caste in US medicine?
A first-person account by a US cardiologist of his name revealing his Kuruba shudra roots and three incidents of caste questions from Indian-origin colleagues, with a call for US law…
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The Crime of Being a Dalit
A reproduced Times of India report on the killing of a young Dalit man near Bhuj, said by police to be over a love affair with a woman from the…
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BJPization of Dalits
X.T.M, with a deliberately provocative title, reads the Karnataka result as Dalit voters moving behind the BJP, and speculates that Hindutva, if it ended caste hierarchy, might be welcome, while…
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Colonial Dravidian
X.T.M, picking up Vijay’s post, argues that the Aryan-Dravidian divide, caste and the Hindu-Muslim split were largely colonial constructions, quoting Lord Curzon that India’s natural boundaries are mountains and seas,…
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South Asians and “communalism”
Razib Khan, citing David Reich, argues that South Asia, unlike China, is a collection of many genetic groups with strong structure persisting within regions, so that Brahmins in Tamil Nadu…
