caste
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Why the Aryan debate matters and why it should NOT
Nachiketa revisits the Aryan debate as a question of identity and politics rather than history, arguing it is largely irrelevant to the issues it is tied to, such as colonial…
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Open Thread – 10/02/2021 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 2 October 2021. Razib Khan says his Substack post on caste is up, and that the podcast released three episodes in three days: interviews with Wahid Majrooh, Pashtana…
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Open Thread – 09/17/2021
Open thread, 17 September 2021. Razib Khan says he will write a free Substack piece on caste as a reference, because the claim that the British invented caste is spreading.
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BAPS!
Quoting a report on a lawsuit alleging that a Hindu sect used low-caste men lured from India as forced labour at its New Jersey temple, the author notes that ‘caste’…
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How the BJP Became the Bahujan Janata Party
The author argues that the BJP, long dismissed as a Brahmin-Baniya party, now draws a mandate from Bahujans as well as its upper-caste base, breaking the habit of voting by…
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Caste in America!?!?! Don’t believe the hype
Responding to a Bloomberg piece on caste in Silicon Valley, the author argues it is mostly about India and recycles familiar anecdotes, and that caste is not a pervasive American…
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Hinduism is not false consciousness , it is “Planet X”
Responding to a Caravan piece claiming upper castes invented a Hindu majority, the author argues Hindu identity is not a recent invention or false consciousness: like an unseen ‘Planet X’,…
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On caste and a new Hinduism
The author argues that caste is closely tied to Hinduism and the subcontinent, and that although Nicholas Dirks’s Castes of Mind stresses British rationalisation of caste, the striking genetic structure…
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Caste in 2nd Generation American Diaspora
Writing as a second-generation Indian American, the author says caste hardly features for their generation apart from three exceptions they name, ‘SJW Brahmins’, ‘victim card’ Dalits and Jatts, doubts that…
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Open Thread – 10/24/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 24 October 2020: notes on a podcast with Fred Martin on the killing of Samuel Paty, Islam and Islamism in France and France-US differences on race, plus the…
