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Freedom leads to freedom, not anything else

A reader-style reply argues that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers such as Ramanuja opposed caste discrimination, and that Islam’s arrival, not Hinduism, explains India’s relative…

Bharata Bharatavanshi11 April 201837 comments
Kashmiri man weds Dalit woman

A link to an NDTV story on a Kashmiri man marrying a Dalit woman, with X.T.M’s comment on inter-community marriage trends in India.

X.T.M9 April 201817 comments
Ambedkar, Ramanuja and Hope in Hinduism

A comment-style post arguing that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers could criticise caste, and that the coming of Islam hindered India’s moral development.

Bharata Bharatavanshi5 April 20180 comments
Should Hinduism survive?

The author, who left and returned to Hinduism, argues it must be judged by whether it can end untouchability and violence against women, while holding that its philosophical traditions such…

Bharata Bharatavanshi23 March 201812 comments
Comment of the Day – the State of Sri Lanka

X.T.M promotes a comment from sbarrkum correcting views of Sri Lanka as part of greater India, arguing it has no upper-caste varnas, a polyglot history and strong social indicators, followed…

X.T.M15 March 20183 comments
Comment of the day

X.T.M promotes a comment by girmit on how wealth is distributed across ethnic groups, adding his own view of class in Britain and Pakistan and tribal ties in Uganda.

X.T.M14 March 20180 comments
Caste in Punjab

Razib Khan links a post on genetic variation in the Lahore sample of the 1000 Genomes project, admitting he knows little about caste in Pakistani Punjab.

Razib Khan29 January 20180 comments
Notes on South Asian genetics, 2018

Prompted by a claim of genetic purity among Gaud Saraswat Brahmins, the author argues South Indian Brahmins show gene flow from local populations, and surveys what Harappa-project and other data…

Razib Khan22 January 201819 comments
Oh to be a Gaud Saraswat Brahmin

A Konkani Gaud Saraswat Brahmin writer notes, via Ajit Pai, what he sees as a compulsive urge among Indians to name-drop a high caste, and recalls the origin legends of…

BP Admin Team · opened by X.T.M22 January 201821 comments
Right Hand Path Orientalism vs Left Hand Path Orientalism

Replying to a post on Nicholas Dirks’s Castes of Mind, the author argues readers take from it a tendency to blame British colonialism for caste, which he calls ‘Right Hand…

Omar Ali20 July 20172 comments