caste
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If you have a hammer, everything is a nail
Answering the Indian and Indian American Left’s reaction to his caste piece, Razib Khan argues that leftists and Hindu nationalists share deep identitarian presuppositions, rejects the label ‘upper-caste Muslim’, and…
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Reactions to caste piece in UnHerd
Razib Khan answers reactions to his UnHerd piece on caste in America, saying it concerns Indian immigrants in the US, not India or the Caribbean, that caste in the West…
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Browncast episode 194: Caste, Hindus in America and Hinduphobia
Razib Khan talks to Nikunj Trivedi and Pushpita Prasad of the Coalition of Hindus of North America about caste identity among Hindu Americans, using the Carnegie survey to question the…
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Stop trying to make ‘caste happen’
Reacting to a Washington Post report on Google cancelling an Equality Labs talk on caste, Razib Khan argues that progressive funders and Indian American journalists uncritically relay activists’ claims, and…
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Posing as a South Asia expert: Brahminical patriarchy edition
Nachiketa writes in the voice of a self-styled ‘South Asia expert’, in what appears to be satire in research-article form, tracing Bangladesh’s divergence on women’s empowerment to ‘Brahminical patriarchy’ and…
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Amana Begam Ansari on Muslims and Women in India
Maneesh Taneja talks to Amana Begam Ansari about being a Muslim woman in India, covering the state of affairs, challenges facing the Muslim community and the country, caste dynamics, and…
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The brown immigrant vs. the brown American
Razib Khan responds to a report on US colleges banning caste discrimination, arguing it flattens a recent Nepali immigrant’s experience into Indian American life, that US-raised Indian Americans may not…
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Caste in America
Razib Khan predicts that UC Davis adding caste to its anti-discrimination policy will lead others to follow and American liberals to talk constantly about caste, and offers survey-based notes on…
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Early Hinduism – the epic stratification
Nachiketa offers a self-described highly speculative account of how jati-varna stratification emerged, bringing together early Indian texts and the Sramana traditions of Buddhists, Jainas and Ajivikas, and contrasting their detailed…
