Reservation (India)
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The creation of Homo General Category
The author argues that the Indian American caste debate overlooks that about 85% of Indian American Hindus are General Category, and that America is a caste shredder, with many US-born…
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A vision for solving India’s caste social crises
Razib Khan argues that jati-varna helped India resist Islamisation but is now a problem, calls caste-based reservations socially toxic and economically inefficient, and expects falling endogamy to dissolve the system…
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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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Super30, Casteocracy & Blacked Up Hrithik Roshan
Reviewing the film Super 30, the author finds Hrithik Roshan blacking up to play an OBC emblematic of India’s ‘Casteocracy’, argues that the IIT and IIM system suits upper castes,…
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Najma Heptullah- Parsis need help (not Muslims)
The poster doubts Najma Heptullah’s priorities after she called Parsis the weakest minority and said Muslims are too numerous to count as one, arguing Muslims need a level playing field…
