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Notes on Seeing, Observing, and Exclusion

Vol. 58, Issue No. 2, 14 Jan, 2023
Shakti Shukla

Reading the Delhi Metro on a regular afternoon as a text lays bare the deeply casteist and elitist nature of urban policy.

Viewing Caste Inequality Upside Down

Vol. 57, Issue No. 32, 06 Aug, 2022
Ashwini Deshpande, Rajesh Ramachandran

The justifi cation for a slew of preferential policies aimed at Brahmins in three southern states of India are empirically examined. The results reveal that Brahmins in these three states are at the top of various human capital measures, various standard of living indicators, and have better political and social networks compared to all other social groups. Thus, these preferential policies retrench the existing caste inequalities instead of eliminating them. 

Sonal Shukla (1941–2021)

Vol. 56, Issue No. 43, 23 Oct, 2021
Vibhuti Patel

The contributions of Sonal Shukla to the social and feminist movements in India are detailed upon. Her literary stints interwoven with an indefatigable, courageous spirit serve as an inspiration for all the socially conscious citizens of the country.

 

Caste and Race: Discrimination Based on Descent

In 2001, Dalit non-governmental organisations pushed for the inclusion of caste-based discrimination in the United Nations conference on racism and other forms of descent-based discriminations. How did the Government of India respond to the internationalisation of casteism? Why did Dalits want casteism to be treated on par with racism in the first place? Did they succeed? And above all, is caste the same as race?

Research Radio Ep 14: The Myth of Vegetarianism in India

In this episode, we speak to Balmurli Natarajan and Suraj Jacob about the politics of vegetarianism in India.

Has Our Understanding of Home Changed in 2020?

Social Stratification among Muslims

Vol. 52, Issue No. 5, 04 Feb, 2017
Bharat Chandra Rout

The article "Does Untouchability Exist among Muslims? Evidence from Uttar Pradesh" (EPW, 9 April 2016) fails at both the methodological and policy levels.

A Voice to the Dalit Cause

Vol. 52, Issue No. 4, 28 Jan, 2017
Raj Sekhar Basu

Readings on Dalit Identity: History, Literature and Religion edited by Swaraj Basu; Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2016; pp 403, ₹895.

Why Is Religious Conversion Controversial in India?

Vol. 38, Issue No. 16, 19 Apr, 2003
M V Nadkarni

In Search of Identity – Debates on Religious Conversion in India by Sebastian C H Kim; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003; pp xi+250, Rs 525 (HB).

Leather Goods Industry in Kanpur

Vol. 37, Issue No. 39, 28 Sep, 2002
K M Mohapatra, Kavita Srivastava

This study explores how socio-economic factors interlink producers' businesses and production activities, and how business interlinkings cause extra-economic coercion on producers of both the Hindu and Muslim communities, as well as those of various sub-castes and investment sizes. A cooperative could help alleviate many problems of the producers, and also mitigate caste and religious prejudices.

Caste and Race: Discrimination by any Name

Vol. 36, Issue No. 32, 11 Aug, 2001
Badri Raina

Racism was as uniquely institutionalised in South Africa as caste discrimination has been within the Hindu social order. Why then can we not permit the world community to express itself on the latter as we have, through the years, on the former?

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