Dalit
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Daughters of Destiny
Recommends the four-part Netflix series Daughters of Destiny, about a school founded by an Indian-American millionaire for Dalit girls in India.
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Browncast Episode 43: Indian Elections, the Aftermath, with Kushal Mehra
A BrownCast episode on the 2019 Indian election result with Kushal Mehra of the Carvaka Podcast, who thinks Modi’s win owed most to delivering benefits to the poorest, plus the…
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When Brahmins get treated like Dalits; the world listens
Responding to an Instagram post, the author argues that white people must learn more about race, but asks how many upper-caste Indians would let their children play with Dalits, and…
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BrownCast Podcast episode 20: Conversation with a middle-class Dalit
The host talks to a university-educated, middle-class Dalit in Gujarat, who describes everyday slights rather than daily oppression in urban India. The host notes this seems far from Jim Crow,…
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We are all Aryans now
Drawing on a chapter he wrote for a forthcoming Indian book, the author argues that almost all South Asians are Aryans in the genetic sense, since Indo-Aryan steppe ancestry runs…
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‘In the milk of OBCs and Dalits, Muslims have added sugar’
Prompted by a Dalit-Muslim political tie-up in Aurangabad, the author compares Jinnah with Ambedkar, setting out nine points of contrast. He argues that Jinnah won the tactical battle but lost…
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Sting of a WASP
The author, who says he stands with Dalits, argues that Western vilification of India’s upper castes is unhelpful, that those castes are shrinking through migration, intermarriage and low fertility as…
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Why am I an Untouchable
X.T.M recommends a HuffPost video of Sujatha Gidla speaking first-hand about being an Untouchable, noting that ‘Dalit’ is in some ways a euphemism and that he follows her usage.
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Bangladeshis are very East Asian, Sri Lankan Tamils are not quite as structured
Razib Khan argues that Bengalis are substantially East Asian in ancestry, with little West Asian admixture even among Bengali Muslims, and that Sri Lankan Tamils are less genetically structured than…
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Dalits in Bangladesh
Razib Khan reports that five Dhaka samples in the 1000 Genomes data cluster with Tamil and Telugu Dalits, which he reads as showing descent from migrants who came to Bangladesh…
