Gregory Clark
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The Lutyens Brahmin & the Indian Muslim
X.T.M borrows the Boston Brahmin to describe India’s apex elite, admitted by assimilation, presentation and marriage, and asks whether the new Hindu order’s explicit loyalty tests for Indian Muslims expose…
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The the origins of the false moral panic about caste in the USA
Razib Khan calls the push to ban caste discrimination in US institutions, such as Brown University, a false moral panic, arguing that few Indian Americans are Dalit or care about…
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Brahmin please!
Discussing a study following Swedish families over seven generations, the post notes that ancestors’ status shapes life chances long afterwards despite high mobility, which fits Gregory Clark’s work on persistent…
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Caste system explained?
Extracts on Raj Chetty’s finding that US social mobility is low and steady and on Gregory Clark’s surname research, which the poster says implicitly works as a caste test.
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Copts- elites amongst elites
Comments on Gregory Clark’s The Son Also Rises, noting that categories such as Indian Christians and Black Africans are crude and suggesting generation-by-generation data on Indians.
