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  1. Renaming Caste, Retaining Privilege

    Attempts to 'invisibilise' caste through definitional alterations – whether in terms of an organic community or of a cultural community – are enmeshed in long-range socioeconomic transformations. Ankur Barua and Vishal Ananthakumar write.

    #caste #casteism #HinduPhilosophies #advaita #AdiShankara #vivekananda #HinduScriptures #manusmriti #AryaSamaj #BRAmbedkar #brahmins #TamilBrahmins #brahminism #class #untouchability #india

    theindiaforum.in/caste/renamin

  2. Intellectual Insurgency and Mahesh Raut

    We are witnessing a pretend politics which lives on the time borrowed from a deferred revolution, write Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan (excerpted from the authors' book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics)

    #BookExcerpt #BK16 #MaheshRaut #BhimaKoregaonCase #BhimaKoregaon #history #RSS #brahminism #BrahminHegemony #dalits #caste #SocialJustice #rights #UAPA #DraconianLaws #hindutva #books #bookstodon #history #histodon #india

    thewire.in/rights/mahesh-raut-

  3. Dance and performance across boundaries of caste, gender and citizenship in India

    Three recent books demonstrate how dancers negotiate individuality and collective identity through their work, and how their gender and sexuality is controlled and reproduced by caste mechanisms in modern Indian society. Ranjana Dave writes.

    #BookReview #dance #caste #PerformingArts #brahminism #gender #masculinity #dalits #BRAmbedkar #mohiniyattam #tamasha #lavani #kuchipudi # #books #ShailajaPaik #HarshitaMruthintiKamath #RumyaSreePutcha #bookstodon #india

    himalmag.com/culture/lavani-ta

  4. Banaras Hindu University researches Manusmriti ‘applicability’

    Banaras Hindu University is researching the continuing “applicability” of the Manusmriti, which codified what became the caste system and gave women the status of family property, with government funds earmarked for worldclass academic projects.

    #UttarPradesh #BHU #manusmiriti #education #brahminism #casteism #CasteSystem #sexism #misogyny #untouchability #CasteDiscrimination #hindutva #BJPStates #india

    telegraphindia.com/india/banar

  5. Court Orders FIR Against MLA Bal Mukundacharya in Assault Case: Accused of Spitting and Kicking Dalit's Chest

    Mukundacharya had won the Hawa Mahal seat by defeating Congress candidate RR Tiwari by a thin margin of 974 votes. He went around his constituency shutting down shops selling non-vegetarian food a day after being elected and later apologised for his actions after people complained about him to the National Human Rights Commission.

    #rajasthan #BalMukundacharya #BJP #CasteViolence #dalits #brahminism #vegetarianism #casteism #caste #HateCrime #HumanRights #BJPStates #india

    en.themooknayak.com/dalit-news

  6. Saving the World Like a Savarna

    Savarnas can pose as extremely radical and culturally progressive and then, with the flip of a metaphorical switch, slip back into their privileged family lives without the slightest existential friction. This switching is possible because Savarna social lives are largely public-facing performances, writes Prof. Ravikant Kisana.

    theswaddle.com/saving-the-worl

    #caste #savarnas #UpperCastes #brahminism #LiberalBrahmins #casteism #CasteDiscrimination #untouchability #communalism #brahmins #india

  7. ‘Devoted teacher, ISKCON disciple’ — IIT Mandi head in news for linking meat-eating to landslides

    Colleagues of Laxmidhar Behera, in news for controversial remarks, admit he was always orthodox in beliefs. He relates every scientific conversation to spirituality, allege students.

    theprint.in/india/education/de

    #HimachalPradesh #mandi #LaxmidharBehera #IITMandi #IITs #IITKanpur #pseudoscience #vegetarianism #brahminism #ISKCON #hindutva #BJPStates #india

  8. Meet the trio who will soon become TN's first women temple priests

    Ranjitha, Ramya, and Krishnaveni are thrilled at the prospect of becoming the first women priests in Tamil Nadu but are also aware of the long and arduous journey that lies ahead of them.

    thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/m

    #TamilNadu #TNGovt #HRCE #temples #WomenPriests #caste #equality #WomensRights #dalits #brahminism #untouchability #CasteDiscrimimation #DMK #hinduism #india

  9. 'Dalits kept as cleaners': Brahmins dominate Sulabh toilets' top managerial positions

    The founder of Sulabh International, Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, is said to have brought 'revolution' to the toilet system in India by introducing the concept of 'paid toilet' system. However, Sulabh International actually became the biggest beneficiary of the hypocrisy of a society which refuses to pay honourably to a community which is enslaved. Community people continue to work as manual scavengers.

    counterview.net/2023/08/dalits

    #ManualScavenging #sanitation #dalits #HumanRights #CasteDiscrimination #SulabhInternational #CasteViolence #caste #labour #inequality #untouchability #brahminism #india

  10. Caste’s Role in Shaping Water Access Is Missing From Indian Environmental Discourse

    Even as environmentalists and researchers wax eloquent about water access being a fundamental human right, they neglect the fact that caste is the single most important barrier to the actual realisation of this fundamental right.

    #water #caste #dalits #adivasis #untouchability #casteism #CasteDiscrimination #brahminism #HumanRights #environment #india

    thewire.in/caste/caste-water-a

  11. ‘14-15 Year-Old Girls Used To Get Married & Deliver Child Before 17 In Past, Read Manusmriti’: Gujarat HC In Plea For Termination Of Minor’s 7-Month Fetus

    While dealing with a plea seeking termination of over 7-month-old fetus of a minor rape survivor (aged 16 years 11 months old), the Gujarat High Court orally observed as to how it was normal in the past for 14-15-year-old girls to get married and deliver a child before they turn 17.

    #gujarat #GujaratHC #rape #pregnancy #abortion #ManuSmriti #justice #brahminism #hindutva #india

    livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-

  12. Deal struck, Dalits can now enter temple in Villupuram village

    About three peace meetings were earlier held after the SC members said the caste Hindus prevented them entry and assaulted three SC members of the village during a festival held on April 7.

    #TamilNadu #villupuram #dalits #TempleEntry #untouchability #CasteDiscrimination #CasteHindus #brahminism #caste #casteism #india

    newindianexpress.com/states/ta

  13. Caste crimes: Justice remains a mirage for Dalits as govt caught in self-induced slumber

    As if to add salt to their wounds, the Dalits were driven to the wall by authorities who would rather prefer to "resolve" the issue "amicably" rather than take action against the perpetrators.

    #TamilNadu #villupuram #dalits #caste #dalit #CasteViolence #vanniyar #melpathi #CasteDiscrimination #TempleEntry #temples #untouchability #SCSTAct #SCST #casteism #vengaivayal #brahminism #india

    newindianexpress.com/states/ta

  14. Battle ahead: Hindutva vs Mandal 2.0

    The All India Federation for Social Justice seeks to check the subversion of reservation, strengthen federalism and secularism, and culturally interrogate Brahminical Hinduism. These ideas together represent an ideological alternative to BJP’s Hindu nationalism.

    #AIFSJ #SocialJustice #federalism #reservations #secularism #BJP #caste #CasteCensus #MKStalin #DMK #AkhileshYadav #hindutva #GRSwaminathan #brahminism #communalism #india

    mid-day.com/news/opinion/artic

  15. Caste violence unleashed in Haveri: Little has changed for Madiga Dalits over the years

    The incident has brought to focus the caste-based discrimination in Haveri's Ranebennur taluk, where a 2019 report had found that Madigas were not allowed to enter the village temples in 72 of the 87 villages.

    #karnataka #haveri #dalits #dalit #madiga #CasteViolence #TempleEntry #untouchability #nandihalli #casteism #caste #brahminism #ranebannur #HumanRights #CivilRights #panchamasalis #lingayats #india

    thenewsminute.com/article/cast

  16. Clash breaks out over Dalits offering prayers at Madhya Pradesh Shiva temple

    The brawl was allegedly triggered by upper castes using casteist slurs and chasing away a group of Dalit women offering prayers in the temple where they had been denied entry a few days ago.

    #MadhyaPradesh #khargone #dalits #balai #TempleEntry #untouchability #shivratri #casteism #brahminism #caste #dalit #gurjars #marathas #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #hinduism #CasteViolence #india

    thehindu.com/news/national/oth