Dalit
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Caste in Pakistan
A reader comment, signed Abdul Majeed, argues that caste matters greatly in Pakistan despite appearing invisible in big cities, shaping elections, marriages and dealings with bureaucrats, and accuses Sir Syed…
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The Crime of Being a Dalit
A reproduced Times of India report on the killing of a young Dalit man near Bhuj, said by police to be over a love affair with a woman from the…
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BJPization of Dalits
X.T.M, with a deliberately provocative title, reads the Karnataka result as Dalit voters moving behind the BJP, and speculates that Hindutva, if it ended caste hierarchy, might be welcome, while…
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Are the AASI black?
X.T.M asks whether the Ancestral South Indians were black, arguing that genetics has been oriented around whiteness and that these ancestors, related to coastal ‘Negrito’ waves, gave South Asians their…
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Kashmiri man weds Dalit woman
A link to an NDTV story on a Kashmiri man marrying a Dalit woman, with X.T.M’s comment on inter-community marriage trends in India.
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The Balmikis of Pakistan
A Reuters piece on Reema Abbasi’s book about Hindu temples in Pakistan, with the poster’s interest in the precarious life of the Balmiki community.
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Babri Masjid Redux (just say no)
The author says to reject any twenty-first-century sequel to Babri, argues that attacks on minorities cause electoral backlash, and that Dalits’ concern is survival, not religious label, while backing the…
