Caste
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Exploring the Indian Caste System through French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's Thesis “Forms of Capital.” A thread 🧵⬇️ #Caste #Casteism #Sociology #Bourdieu #Hindu #Social_Capital...
A THREAD 🧵 More Dalit (former untouchable) students going to Oxfords, Harvards. West now gets the caste divide.
#Caste is centuries-old disease. But somehow no one seemed too concerned until recently. Then SUDDENLY many fronts – from India to US to Europe - awakened to this issue together!...
Agree with this 👇. Would add that the most interesting intellectual debates are happening *within* the Hindu right wing (I am keeping economic and foreign policy debates aside as t...
The most wild series of articles you’ll read on Indian politics in a long time. The BJP is setting up party cadres & infrastructure to break the Muslim vote via caste. Islam will...
In recent times, individuals from socially backward communities have reached positions of power. PM Modi (OBC), President Kovind (SC) and upcoming President Murmu (ST) to name a f...
One of the most peculiar parts about the diaspora discussion on caste is non-Hindu South Asian Americans talking about how they realized their caste privilege & promptly blame it o...
When Bunkar (weaver) caste people converted to Islam, they were called ‘Julaha’ as it roughly means weaver in Persian. To escape tradition of mockery of Julahas in Muslim community...
Extract from the memorandum on Ahir Regiment jointly submitted by Provincial Yadava (Gopa) Mahasabha and All-India Yadava Mahasabha on December 18, 1928. The argument here was bas...
If we believe in Karma and also believe that the Karmas of our ancestors have an effect of causation of certain events in our lives, then I don't understand how it's difficult to u...
