caste
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Caste in the Indian subcontinent: the wages of Manu
Razib Khan points to a new Substack post on caste, saying the DNA data now give the general outline and it is up to social historians to make sense of…
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A vision for solving India’s caste social crises
Razib Khan argues that jati-varna helped India resist Islamisation but is now a problem, calls caste-based reservations socially toxic and economically inefficient, and expects falling endogamy to dissolve the system…
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The the origins of the false moral panic about caste in the USA
Razib Khan calls the push to ban caste discrimination in US institutions, such as Brown University, a false moral panic, arguing that few Indian Americans are Dalit or care about…
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The varieties of Brahmins (and others)
Razib Khan reports from data sent to him that Rajasthani Brahmins are more northwest-shifted than UP Brahmins, Bihar Babhans resemble UP Brahmins, and Gujarati and Maharashtra Brahmins fall closer to…
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Hinduism will die, and Hinduism will live
Razib Khan answers Hindus who lament their religion’s weakness, arguing that 1.2 billion adherents and great internal variation make extinction implausible, that jati-varna’s flexibility helped Hinduism survive Islam, and that…
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Being anti-Brown is anti-Hindu
Commenting on a Washington Post report on caste bans, Razib Khan argues that prejudice against Hinduism is tightly coupled with anti-South Asian bigotry, so non-Hindu brown people are also hit,…
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Caste and California: the lawsuits are in!
Reacting to two Hindu professors suing the California State University system over adding caste to its anti-discrimination policy, Razib Khan calls the policy impractical and wrongheaded, arguing that there are…
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Open Thread – 08/12/2022 – Brown Pundits
Open thread for 12 August 2022, opening with a link to a report on Google cancelling a talk on caste bias amid accusations of reverse discrimination, with a jibe that…
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Varna is Indo-European and jati is Indian
Razib Khan observes that most Indo-European societies had occupational caste systems but only the subcontinent has jati, suggests the Indo-Aryans adopted indigenous forms of strict endogamy, and speculates that jati…
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On being an “upper caste” “Muslim”
Razib Khan reflects on being called an ‘upper-caste Muslim’, arguing that although his ancestry may be largely Kayastha and Brahmin, caste is irrelevant to his family’s identity as generic Bengali…
