caste
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Society
A glimpse of Pakistan and her castes.
A reader’s first-person account by Imad Uddin Ahmed of discovering caste and skin-colour prejudice in Pakistan after returning from California, posted as the second story in a reader series.
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Society
Democracy against Brahmins
A post on California’s debate over affirmative action and Asian Americans, linking it to Tamil Nadu’s 69 per cent reservation policy and the history of Brahmins there, with extracts from…
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Caste system explained?
Extracts on Raj Chetty’s finding that US social mobility is low and steady and on Gregory Clark’s surname research, which the poster says implicitly works as a caste test.
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Copts- elites amongst elites
Comments on Gregory Clark’s The Son Also Rises, noting that categories such as Indian Christians and Black Africans are crude and suggesting generation-by-generation data on Indians.
