Dalit
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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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Christian conversions in rural India
Razib Khan quotes a New York Times report on mob attacks and conversion-law arrests of Christians in India, reads it sceptically as a Cow Belt, Dalit-convert phenomenon, notes Hindus are…
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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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Open Thread – 12/12/2020 – Brown Pundits
Open thread, 12 December 2020: the poster plotted direct-to-consumer samples from people with four Indian-born grandparents against 1000 Genomes, and found no southern Dalits in the sample.
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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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Brown Pundits Browncast episodes 128 and 129
Two BrownCast episodes: Jasper Gregory on Vietnam, from coronavirus to BLM to K-Pop, and Abhinav Prakash on the Hathras rape, how it relates to caste politics in Uttar Pradesh and…
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Rape Culture, Indian Edition
Omar Ali responds to excerpts on sexual violence against Dalit women in East Punjab, accepting that such cases occur across the subcontinent with police often another source of oppression, and…
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The practice of untouchability by district
Razib Khan shares a district map of untouchability practice, taken via Alice Evans from a paper on its continuing practice in India, noting that regional patterns outweigh education, income or…
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Unheard objections
Answering objections to his piece on Brahmins and white privilege, the author says caste is not a US issue but Indian Americans are unrepresentative: in a private survey of 2,000,…
