caste
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Talking points re: caste
As a placeholder, the author says he is often asked about caste in America, mostly by journalists writing about caste in tech, which he thinks largely manufactured from a few…
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People of lower castes have bad personalities
A quoted study abstract finding that caste disparities in hiring at elite multinationals recruiting from an elite Indian college arise mainly at the final personal interview, which screens on ‘cultural…
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A Conversation on Caste with Dr. Prakash Shah
A BrownCast in which Dr Prakash Shah of Queen Mary University of London discusses with Omar Ali the framework for studying caste in India and its colonial antecedents, followed by…
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Open Thread – 04/14/2023 – Brown Pundits
Open Thread, 14 April 2023: the host points to Iran pieces for readers asking whether they are Iranian, previews a long post on caste, the CISCO case and the US,…
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Critical Caste Theory: A Dubious Discourse
An essay arguing that ‘Critical Caste Theory’, borrowed from Critical Race Theory, seeks to break the BJP’s caste coalition and attack ‘Brahminism’, which it sees as a term for Hinduism,…
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Intellectual Brown Web
After recording an impromptu podcast with three other commentators, including Sarah Haider and Shadi Hamid, the author asks why no ‘based’ Hindu American was among them, and says that Hindu…
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Division
Razib Khan laments that South Asians keep stressing their differences, Indian against Pakistani, north against south, high caste against low, though they share common roots and outsiders see the kinship.…
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Genetics of Maharashtra Deshastha Brahmin
Razib Khan reports a Maharashtra Deshastha Brahmin sample that plots with the Maharashtra Kayastha and looks more like South Indian than North Indian Brahmins, while the Saraswat Brahmin seems more…
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Book Review: Ancient India, a Culture of Contradictions
Nachiketa rates Upinder Singh’s Ancient India: A Culture of Contradictions the weakest of her four books he has read, finding it largely a thematic summary of earlier work, with jarring…
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Merry Christmas!
Razib Khan reads the genetics of a sample with Sadgop and Baidya parents as showing that Baidya are not Brahmins who lost caste, since Bengali Brahmins shift toward the steppe,…
