Bahujan” formulation, arguing that it flattens Bahujan political agency, misreads movements like the farmers’ protest, and recentres savarna epistemologies while ignoring Ambedkarite ideological ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power.Teltumbde critiques ...

The Menon Investigation is set in the India governed by caste rules. Here, inter-caste couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, in Coimbatore in 2023. | Photo Credit: Periasamy M “Don’t go around in the ...

Bengaluru: Caste, for most citizens, is something they inherit at birth — recorded, recognised, and carried through life in ...

Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

Holi expands well beyond the Indian continent. Hindus celebrate in Bangladesh and Pakistan, plus other countries with large ...

A Reading in the Biography of a Revolutionary Indian Intellectual By Bayan Saleh Throughout history, women have played ...

Controversy is outsourced to non-elite voices while the state’s dominant social and economic blocs remain untouched – almost.

Pre-colonial resistance to Brahminism—the ideological source of caste—often took quasi-religious forms. The Dravidian movement secularised the caste question and shattered Brahmin hegemony, but it did ...

It appeared in news reports from last few weeks that the Government of Madhya Pradesh in an affidavit to the Supreme Court has endorsed a statement that “India's caste system was originally founded on ...

A year ago, John Gurda was worried about Trump being an autocrat in his second term. Today he writes about the deeper and darker truths about Trumpism.

A new genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics has revealed that the Indian caste system– which is the traditional organisation of South Asian society into a hierarchy of ...