Dalit
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Dalit in Silicon Valley
Razib Khan responds to the New York Times report on caste in Silicon Valley, arguing from population numbers and genotype samples that Dalits are too few among Indian Americans for…
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The memes reflected in our genes
Razib Khan asks how Brahmins can show higher steppe ancestry yet not form a single founding lineage, answering that Indian social ecology and Brahmin roles spread and mixed steppe ancestry,…
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“OBC” in West Bengal a social construct?
Quotes a genetics paper on Birbhum, West Bengal, finding that Other Backward Classes individuals diverge only about 225 years from general-caste people, so the category looks more a political construct…
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A Dalit writes on Oppresive Hindi
An extract from an essay on Hindi, quoting historian Sumit Sarkar that literary Hindi was bound up with Hindu-revivalist movements, and arguing that it carried Brahminical and communal impulses from…
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Comment of the Day:
A reader comment promoted to a post: it likens Dalits to Black Americans in the segregated South, and argues that Indian nationalism prizes territory over people while Pakistan is rooted…
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Would a Dalit Jinnah have gotten Dalitstan?
Asks whether Jinnah was simply the right man who happened to be Muslim, or whether the community would always have produced a saviour, and adds a reader comment likening Dalits…
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Coloniser boasts about his skin colour privilege
The author calls a white expatriate’s poem about her skin-colour privilege in China classic virtue signalling, arguing that a privileged person should let the less privileged speak, and that the…
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Why it is very sad that racism arose in the US but not India-
The author argues caste is best seen as an institution that ring-fenced ancestry, so that low AASI rather than high ANI marks higher rank, and speculates on how class structure…
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Why I hate the term Brown
After watching Daughters of Destiny, the author argues ‘Brown’ is an offensive catch-all because it hides differences of shade and caste privilege, urging Dalit South Asians to claim ‘black’ so…
