item: #1 of 112 id: caste-117 author: Balmforth, Mark E. title: In Nāki’s Wake date: 2020-02-14 words: 10901 flesch: 62 summary: Answers are not readily available, but we can say for certain that, in the wake of Nāki’s death, the ACM gradually began to accept the operation of Veḷḷāḷar caste privilege. Richard Fox Young and Subramaniam Jebanesan note the mission’s overwhelming Veḷḷāḷar (dominant caste) character, but the two fail to show that the mission’s Veḷḷāḷar affiliation was a deliberate choice, and thereby miss an opportunity to examine how American missionaries facilitated late nineteenth- and twentieth- century Veḷḷāḷar dominance over the peninsula’s economic, social, and political life (1995, pp. keywords: acm; american; caste; ceylon; ceylon mission; death; enslaved; history; jaffna; life; marriage; mission; missionaries; missionary; nāki; poor; slavery; social; south; tamil; veḷḷāḷar cache: caste-117.pdf plain text: caste-117.txt item: #2 of 112 id: caste-123 author: Saha, Subro title: Caste, Materiality and Embodiement date: 2020-02-14 words: 9659 flesch: 45 summary: If the Dalit’s touch violates the body of other castes then touch cannot be identified within the material body of the toucher only (then how can one project the Dalit’s body as ‘polluting’?), and if it remains always connected with the originating body then how can it affect other bodies? For Ambedkar caste forecloses the capacity to constitute collective community based on equality and fraternity, and practicing a priori discriminations based on identifying ‘savarna’ seems to continue in a paradoxical way the emphasis on ‘varna. keywords: approach; attempt; body; caste; idea; idealism; indian; lokayata; materialism; question; reading; remains; society; thinking; touch cache: caste-123.pdf plain text: caste-123.txt item: #3 of 112 id: caste-13 author: Sampath, Rajesh title: The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US date: 2020-02-14 words: 1340 flesch: 31 summary: When majorities institute this distinction by ‘projecting, irrationally, smelliness, hyper-animality, and hyper-sexuality’ onto other minority groups, the majority creates an illusory distance from its own ‘animality’ and ‘mortality.’ This critical addition of the category of ‘disgust’ sheds new light on traditional research in law and social policy to examine modalities of social exclusion and therefore, ways to craft sound recommendations to mitigate or eliminate them. keywords: disgust; exclusion; india; policy cache: caste-13.pdf plain text: caste-13.txt item: #4 of 112 id: caste-135 author: Prasad, Indulata title: Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens date: 2020-02-14 words: 1150 flesch: 37 summary: It draws much needed attention to the fact that while ‘the law maintained its monopoly to punish crimes it did not displace the monopoly of dominant caste to rape, parade, and kill Dalit women.’ The book also commemorates Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s work on caste as it reiterates his position on endogamy as being critical to the ‘unbroken reproduction of caste’ for centuries and the perpetuation of a unique form of inequality in India. keywords: caste; state; women cache: caste-135.pdf plain text: caste-135.txt item: #5 of 112 id: caste-138 author: Shaikh, Juned title: Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and Citizenship in Western India date: 2020-10-31 words: 1246 flesch: 50 summary: To cordon off civil society from political society and offset its relevance would be akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. For instance, theoretically, Waghmore’s case for the resonance of civility and civil society in Dalit politics helps us reimagine the transformative power of these concepts. keywords: caste; politics; society; waghmore cache: caste-138.pdf plain text: caste-138.txt item: #6 of 112 id: caste-139 author: Mishra, Vinod Kumar title: Caste, Religion and Ethnicity date: 2020-02-14 words: 10468 flesch: 53 summary: The idea of social rental housing should be integrated with low income households and in-situ development of slums under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. The study also discusses the unpleasant outcome of discrimination in rental housing market against scheduled caste, Muslims and ethnic minorities. keywords: brokers; caste; discrimination; groups; house; housing; housing market; rental; social; tenants; urban cache: caste-139.pdf plain text: caste-139.txt item: #7 of 112 id: caste-141 author: Sampath, Rajesh title: A Commentary on Ambedkar’s Posthumously Published “Philosophy of Hinduism” date: 2020-02-14 words: 7042 flesch: 52 summary: Introduction In 2014, The Dr. Ambedkar Foundation within the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of the Government of India reprinted Vol. 3 in the collected works titled Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches.1 At the time of his death in 1956, numerous unpublished papers of Ambedkar were transferred to the High Court of Delhi and then given to the Administrator General of the State of Maharashtra and have been held under their guardianship since.2 Vol. 3 1Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Justice, Rights, and Social Change, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA E-mail: rsampath@brandeis.edu 18 CASTE: From a standpoint of social justice, this paper attempts to draw out the profound implications of one of Ambedkar’s last studies prior to his death, and argues for the centrality of both philosophy and the philosophy of religion in Ambedkar studies in general. keywords: ambedkar; caste; hinduism; history; justice; life; philosophy; religion; social; vol; writings cache: caste-141.pdf plain text: caste-141.txt item: #8 of 112 id: caste-142 author: Acharya, Sanghmitra Sheel title: Population-Poverty Linkages and Health Consequences date: 2020-02-14 words: 9533 flesch: 53 summary: The robustness of the relationships between primary care, income inequality, and population health was tested in weighted multivariate regressions, income inequality measures such as Gini coefficient, Robin Hood Index) and were found to be significantly associated with mortality. Economic policies that increase income inequality are also known to have a detrimental effect on population health (Wilkinson, 1986, 1997; keywords: access; caste; children; discrimination; economic; exclusion; groups; health; income; india; inequality; journal; mortality; māori; new; non; percent; population; poverty; social; status cache: caste-142.pdf plain text: caste-142.txt item: #9 of 112 id: caste-143 author: Assan, Joseph Kweku; Simon, Laurence; Kharisma, Dinar D; Adaboh, Afia A; Assan, Nicola; Al Mamun, Abdullah title: Assessing the Impact of Public-Private Funded Midday Meal Programs on the Educational Attainment and Well-being of School Children in Uttar Pradesh, India date: 2020-10-31 words: 9693 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords India, Uttar Pradesh, midday meal, school feeding program, equity, well-being, social inclusion, Dalit, SDGs. This approach could be particularly helpful for school feeding programs operated by national and local organizations. keywords: analysis; caste; food; impact; mdm; number; percent; program; quality; satisfaction; school; social; status; students; study; suggestions; teachers cache: caste-143.pdf plain text: caste-143.txt item: #10 of 112 id: caste-144 author: Pal, G. C. title: Caste and Consequences date: 2020-02-14 words: 8419 flesch: 47 summary: The analysis reveals that consequences of caste violence are manifested in social, economic, psychological, and moral terms. Analysis Analysis primarily revolves around the patterns of caste violence over the years and its larger consequences. keywords: act; cases; caste; caste violence; consequences; crimes; india; justice; pal; rights; social; victims; violence cache: caste-144.pdf plain text: caste-144.txt item: #11 of 112 id: caste-145 author: Silva, Kalinga Tudor title: Nationalism, Caste-blindness and the Continuing Problems of War-Displaced Panchamars in Post-war Jaffna Society date: 2020-02-14 words: 10911 flesch: 49 summary: According to the leaders of WCMC, this action motivated largely by caste considerations of Karaiyar IDP in Velvetithurai ,seen as a Karaiyar stronghold and their refusal to treat lower caste IDP as their equals let alone partners in a common struggle, served to dampen their struggle for winning their rights as IDP. He too, however, recognised that nationalist struggles and caste struggles operate at different levels with caste and religion as the core of the private domain outside the sphere of influence of colonial intervention per se. keywords: camps; caste; class; discrimination; government; idp; idp camps; jaffna; land; lanka; ltte; nationalism; new; panchamar; peninsula; society; sri; state; tamil; war cache: caste-145.pdf plain text: caste-145.txt item: #12 of 112 id: caste-159 author: Simon, Laurence; Thorat, Sukhadeo title: Why a Journal on Caste? date: 2020-02-14 words: 3497 flesch: 50 summary: However, it was Rs 2413 for high caste, Rs 1531 for other backward caste or OBC (a lower but not ‘ex- untouchable caste), and Rs 1294 for scheduled castes. The per capita income declines as we move from high caste to other backward castes and to the scheduled caste, indicating the persistence of graded inequality in income. keywords: article; caste; cent; discrimination; employment; india; journal; rights; system cache: caste-159.pdf plain text: caste-159.txt item: #13 of 112 id: caste-166 author: the 14th Dalai Lama, His Holiness title: Felicitation date: 2020-02-20 words: 149 flesch: 71 summary: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, of Brandeis University is being launched to advance the study of caste and social policies. With my prayers and good wishes, 22 February 2019 keywords: caste cache: caste-166.pdf plain text: caste-166.txt item: #14 of 112 id: caste-171 author: BK, Amar Bahadur title: Speaking is Healing: Dalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic Healing Movement in Nepal date: 2020-10-31 words: 9453 flesch: 65 summary: I then explore, in the next section, how Dalit Sachchai women learn to speak in Sachchai satsangs. Thereafter, I will dwell on what speaking means for Sachchai women. keywords: believers; caste; dalit; family; god; healing; microphone; nepal; public; sachchai; sachchai women; satsang; social; speaking; voice; women cache: caste-171.pdf plain text: caste-171.txt item: #15 of 112 id: caste-172 author: Thorat, Amit; Khalid, Nazar; Shrivastav, Nikhil; Hathi, Payal; Spears, Dean; Coffey, Diane title: Persisting Prejudice: Measuring Attitudes and Outcomes by Caste and Gender date: 2020-10-31 words: 6284 flesch: 58 summary: Why do many general caste women say they support women working outside the home even though it is the group with the lowest labour force participation rate among women? Is the fact that general caste women report experiencing less violence than women in other social groups a true difference, or due to differential reporting? Amongst Hindus, they are higher for OBCs, SCs, and STs than general caste women as well as Muslim women. keywords: attitudes; caste; data; groups; india; outcomes; research; sari; social; survey; violence; women; work cache: caste-172.pdf plain text: caste-172.txt item: #16 of 112 id: caste-177 author: Ingole, Prashant title: Intersecting Dalit and Cultural Studies: De-brahmanising the Disciplinary Space date: 2020-10-31 words: 7969 flesch: 53 summary: Dalit cultural movement and Dalit politics in Maharashtra. S.P. Punalekar (2001) elaborates, stating that the agenda of Dalit cultural resistance was uplifted by the Mahars of Maharashtra, and it is now resurrected by other complex social and political groups. keywords: ambedkar; anti; caste; culture; dalit; indian; knowledge; literature; mainstream; movement; new; politics; social; studies; way cache: caste-177.pdf plain text: caste-177.txt item: #17 of 112 id: caste-182 author: Singh, Poonam title: The Advent of Ambedkar in the Sphere of Indian Women Question date: 2020-10-31 words: 8123 flesch: 51 summary: Contrary to popular perception that he championed the cause of Dalits and dalit women, Babasaheb, as Ambedkar is fondly referred to, worked as a socio-political advocate for Dalit as well as upper caste Indian women concomitantly. In his quest to ensure freedom, equality, and individuality of Indian women, he resorted to the legalized mechanism and proposed sweeping constitutional provisions, famous as the Hindu code Bill, placing women at par with men in matters of inheritance and allowing them freedom to marry outside their caste. keywords: ambedkar; bill; caste; chakravarti; freedom; gender; hindu; hindu women; indian; movements; position; society; system; vedic; vol; women cache: caste-182.pdf plain text: caste-182.txt item: #18 of 112 id: caste-183 author: Pariyar, Sarita title: A Touchable Woman’s Untouchable Daughter: Interplay of Caste and Gender in Nepal date: 2020-10-31 words: 3502 flesch: 76 summary: Pani nacalnya chhoi chhito halnu-naparnya: Impure, but touchable castes) 6. In Nepal, many have been killed for falling in love with high caste women, and many Brahmin men have lost their caste status for marrying ‘untouchable’ women. keywords: ajit; caste; family; mother; nepal; people; sister; woman cache: caste-183.pdf plain text: caste-183.txt item: #19 of 112 id: caste-184 author: Kalyani, Kalyani title: Thathagata Buddha Songs: Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh date: 2020-10-31 words: 6497 flesch: 61 summary: Tathagata Buddha songs, which this paper studies, has been specifically enabling for Dalit women as it gives them not only a sense of religiosity but it also opens them to the possibility of rationalizing their beliefs and practices. The paper also explores the material dimension of Tathagata Buddha songs understanding its circulation, production, and platforms through which these are popularized. keywords: ambedkar; bhakti; buddha; buddha songs; buddhism; emergence; form; music; new; resistance; social; songs; tathagata; tathagata buddha; women cache: caste-184.pdf plain text: caste-184.txt item: #20 of 112 id: caste-188 author: Vyas, Aparna title: A Cultural Psychological Reading of Dalit Literature: A Case Study of 'Joothan' By Om Prakash Valmiki date: 2020-10-31 words: 6430 flesch: 57 summary: Drawing vitality from the teachings of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Dalit literature is the expression of the dissatisfaction that Dalit writers have had with the so-called upper caste writers who never took discriminatory practices into account as ‘rarely did a writer take up an untouchable character and treat him realistically, like an ordinary human being full of vitality, hope as well as despair’ (Kumar, 2010, p.129). The first group includes those who negate the overall existence of Dalit literature. keywords: ambedkar; caste; dalit; hindi; ibid; life; literature; new; prism; resources; school; valmiki cache: caste-188.pdf plain text: caste-188.txt item: #21 of 112 id: caste-203 author: Yadav, Tanvi title: Witch Hunting: A Form of violence against Dalit Women in India date: 2020-10-31 words: 7305 flesch: 56 summary: The most common reasons to accuse and declare women witches are personal disputes or enmities, sexual desires towards women of the lower caste, coveting property of single women. Apart from establishing power over fellow humans, control over use of resources is gained by targeting Dalit women be it with sexual assault or witch hunting. keywords: caste; dalit; hunting; india; law; patriarchy; social; state; superstitions; village; violence; witch; witch hunting; witchcraft; witches; women cache: caste-203.pdf plain text: caste-203.txt item: #22 of 112 id: caste-206 author: Diwakar, Jyoti title: Sex as a Weapon to Settle Scores against Dalits: An Quotidian Phenomenon date: 2020-10-31 words: 7765 flesch: 59 summary: It is primarily due to such narrowed conclusions of violence on women that the literature of Indian feminist framework has not been able to capture a better picture of violence on Dalit women (Darapuri, 2017, p. 441-42). In comparison to the mainstream literature on sexual crimes against women, there are fewer studies that capture the plight of Dalit women. keywords: ambedkar; cases; caste; community; dalit; delhi; india; land; new; rape; rights; social; state; violence; women cache: caste-206.pdf plain text: caste-206.txt item: #23 of 112 id: caste-208 author: Bhaskar, Anurag title: Ambedkar, Lohia, and the Segregations of Caste and Gender: Envisioning a Global Agenda for Social Justice date: 2020-10-31 words: 5122 flesch: 50 summary: Contrary to the assertions of Ilaiah, Paik has questioned the postulate of considering Dalit women as‘somehow more free than high caste women’ (2009, p. 39). The report further stated that the life expectancy among Dalit women is eleven years lower than that of higher caste women despite experiencing identical social conditions like sanitation and drinking water. keywords: ambedkar; caste; class; dalit; feminist; gender; lohia; movement; social; women cache: caste-208.pdf plain text: caste-208.txt item: #24 of 112 id: caste-218 author: Abhishek, Shriyuta; Kannuri, Nanda Kishore title: On the margins of Healthcare: Role of Social Capital in Health of Migrants in India date: 2021-12-18 words: 8042 flesch: 51 summary: In India, the various dogmas of the theory of social capital have not been studied to their potential, especially in the domain of public health. This study was conducted to determine healthcare access among migrants and their social capital, in order to explore the association between social capital and healthcare access. keywords: access; capital; caste; chhattisgarh; group; health; healthcare; india; migrants; migration; people; percent; services; state; study cache: caste-218.pdf plain text: caste-218.txt item: #25 of 112 id: caste-220 author: Ghadage, Tushar title: Ambedkarites in Making: The Process of Awakening and Conversion to Buddhism among Non-Mahar Communities in Maharashtra date: 2020-10-31 words: 7286 flesch: 57 summary: Therefore, there is always a fear of non-assimilation of different castes into Buddhism in Maharashtra as merely casting off their Hindu religion does not give them the feeling of equality, especially when the graded inequality of caste system is deeply entrenched in the society. But in the recent past, people from different social backgrounds belonging to non-Mahar castes have embraced Buddhism. keywords: ambedkar; buddhism; caste; conversion; hindu; maharashtra; non; people; religion; social; society; women cache: caste-220.pdf plain text: caste-220.txt item: #26 of 112 id: caste-223 author: Narayan, Vivek V. title: The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India date: 2020-10-31 words: 5312 flesch: 42 summary: Chapter five describes the role of the IIT-JEE examination in positing the IITs as meritocracy in action, and the changing demographics enabled by the ‘coaching factories,’ which bring in non- Brahmins caste elites who are seen to be the ‘wrong kind of upper castes.’ Subramanian’s emphasis on meritocracy as a technology for caste consolidation leads her to advance Deshpande’s influential argument about the normative ‘castelessness’ of upper castes. keywords: book; caste; cisco; discrimination; education; iits; india; merit; meritocracy; new; privilege; reservations; subramanian cache: caste-223.pdf plain text: caste-223.txt item: #27 of 112 id: caste-226 author: Sawariya, Meena title: Caste and Counselling Psychology in India: Dalit Perspectives in Theory and Practice date: 2021-05-16 words: 6737 flesch: 44 summary: His recent work further reflects that the language of caste oppression shall be inverted because the social-psychological distress faced by Dalit students still suffers significant disconnect with the existing diagnostic assessment criteria (Jadhav, 2019). Most of the times caste oppression as the ‘source’ of the problem is left unexplored and neglected. keywords: caste; client; counselling; dalit; experiences; need; practice; process; psychologist; psychology; social; therapeutic cache: caste-226.pdf plain text: caste-226.txt item: #28 of 112 id: caste-230 author: Babu, Roshni title: Tending Immanence, Transcending Sectarianism: Plane of Mixed Castes and Religions date: 2021-12-18 words: 8683 flesch: 43 summary: In arguing for an inclusionary form of Indian identity, Sen’s deliberation is over the sectarian view of deriving an Indian identity from a Hindu identity (Sen, 2006: 352). This article is an attempt to make the Deleuzean motif of “immanence” amenable to understanding postcolonial engagement with the notion of hybridity in general, and the idea of “Dalit” identity in particular in the background of Ambedkar’s observations on the mixtures of castes and religious identities springing forth amidst the nominal Hindu identity. keywords: ambedkar; caste; deleuze; dissent; ganeri; hindu; identity; immanence; indian; mixed; new; plane; reason; resources; work cache: caste-230.pdf plain text: caste-230.txt item: #29 of 112 id: caste-232 author: Prasad, Indulata title: Caste-ing Space: Mapping the Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India date: 2021-05-16 words: 11036 flesch: 56 summary: Non-Dalit women continue to occupy the space around the old badka kuan and use its water to wash their clothes or for other cleaning purposes, but Bhuiyan Dalit women never go to the old well (Figure 4). Figure 4: Non-Dalit women washing clothes at the badka kuan (March 2014) Caste-ing Space: Mapping the Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India 145 Meanwhile, Dalits who are still living in and drawing water from hand pumps in the dih often get sick by waterborne diseases. keywords: bhuiyan; bhuiyan dalits; bihar; caste; dalits; dih; india; kaari; land; non; resources; rural; segregation; space; untouchability; village; water; women cache: caste-232.pdf plain text: caste-232.txt item: #30 of 112 id: caste-235 author: Arya, Sunaina title: Editorial Essay date: 2020-10-31 words: 7148 flesch: 50 summary: Before being murdered, both the women were gang-raped.9 Indian judicial system has failed to provide equal justice to Dalit women as is available to savarna women, as seen again in 2016 Kopardi violence.10 More vulnerability to dalits and impunity to savarnas is a pattern found in crimes against Dalits.11 Since Khairlanji, data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on atrocities against Dalits show a tremendous rise in Maharashtra, with major crimes like murder and rape being highest.12 In 2019, Maharashtra registered 2,719 cases of atrocities against Dalits and and Adivasis (tribes or indigenous people).13 Worldwide agitation against the Hathras caste-crime could not prevent similar incidents of gang-rape and murder of dalit women by savarna men. What is more disturbing is that the caste norms and practices against Dalit women, have not disappeared in spite of laws against them. keywords: atrocities; cases; caste; dalit; feminist; gender; india; mainstream; patriarchy; rape; rights; savarna; social; south; vol; women cache: caste-235.pdf plain text: caste-235.txt item: #31 of 112 id: caste-236 author: Gurung, Ashok title: Introduction date: 2020-10-31 words: 2425 flesch: 42 summary: In light of the need to support new scholarships on caste and systemic inequities facing Dalit scholars, I am thankful to Professors Laurence Simon and Sukhadeo Thorat, Joint Editors-in-Chief of CASTE: Arya argues that caste is essential for understanding the increasing violence against women and young girls and why we must interrogate arguments about Savarna feminists that ignore and undermine the lived experiences, aspirations and political agency of Dalit women in South Asia. keywords: caste; gender; india; new; questions; scholars; women cache: caste-236.pdf plain text: caste-236.txt item: #32 of 112 id: caste-237 author: Holcombe, Susan title: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents date: 2020-10-31 words: 1866 flesch: 59 summary: She ably distinguishes among the different levels of caste in the U.S.—just as there are different levels of castes in India that exclude only the Dalits. The creation and maintenance of caste systems is embedded in religion and justified by religion (Pillar One). keywords: americans; caste; dominant; racism; wilkerson cache: caste-237.pdf plain text: caste-237.txt item: #33 of 112 id: caste-239 author: Simon, Laurence title: Cover and Table of Contents date: 2020-10-31 words: 1076 flesch: -16 summary: N SOCIAL E XCLUS IO N LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Krishna Bhattachan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Clinical Associate Professor of Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Consultation Service; Founding Editor, Anthropol- ogy & Medicine journal (Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom); Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru Central University, Bengaluru, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar)  Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Jebaroja Singh, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, St. John Fisher College, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, JOINT EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Laurence R. Simon Brandeis University, USA Sukhadeo Thorat (Emeritus) Jawaharlal keywords: associate; brandeis; caste; india; professor; social; studies; university; usa cache: caste-239.pdf plain text: caste-239.txt item: #34 of 112 id: caste-246 author: Kawade, Ankit title: Clearing of the Ground - Ambedkar's Method of Reading date: 2021-05-16 words: 8631 flesch: 55 summary: In V. Moon (Ed.), Babasaheb Ambedkar writings and speeches: vol. 3 (pp. 95–148). In V. Moon (Ed.), Babasaheb Ambedkar writings and speeches: vol. 3 (pp. 149–440). keywords: ambedkar; clearing; ground; hindu; history; india; madness; method; reading; thinking cache: caste-246.pdf plain text: caste-246.txt item: #35 of 112 id: caste-247 author: S, Gunasekaran title: Documenting a Caste: The Chakkiliyars in Colonial and Missionary Documents in India date: 2021-05-16 words: 10758 flesch: 64 summary: This paper is a small part of a larger ethnohistory project that strives for a comprehensive history of the Chakkiliyars and conceptualizes its historical experience – of being ‘untouchable among the untouchables’ – in a broader context of the history of lower caste and mobilizations in South Asia. These observations, no doubt, indicate the efforts of certain missionaries to abolish caste inequalities and to bring lower castes like Chakkiliyar, Paraiyar, Pallar, and Shanar into the Church and its educational institutions. keywords: caste; census; chakkiliyars; colonial; community; district; government; history; india; leather; madras; missionary; new; people; press; social; south; tamil; village; vol; workers cache: caste-247.pdf plain text: caste-247.txt item: #36 of 112 id: caste-260 author: Sajlan, Devanshu title: Hate Speech against Dalits on Social Media: Would a Penny Sparrow be Prosecuted in India for Online Hate Speech? date: 2021-05-16 words: 10942 flesch: 55 summary: Being similarly placed with racial hate speech, caste-based hate speech needs to be prosecuted with equal force as racial hate speech. Consequently, since caste-based discrimination is covered within the scope of ICERD, caste-based hate speech must be treated at par with racial hate speech, thereby being provided a lower level of protection, just like racist hate speech. keywords: article; caste; community; discrimination; hate; hate speech; icerd; india; international; law; para; rights; section; social; speech cache: caste-260.pdf plain text: caste-260.txt item: #37 of 112 id: caste-261 author: Kureel, Pranjali title: Indian Media and Caste: Of Politics, Portrayals and Beyond date: 2021-05-16 words: 6682 flesch: 55 summary: Dr. Ambedkar (2014b, p. 3) had grasped this attitude on the part of the upper castes engaging with caste issues in the following words: It is usual to hear all those who feel moved by the deplorable condition of the Untouchables unburden themselves by uttering the cry “We must do something for the Untouchables”. In the name of reporting caste issues, journalists reach villages to cover the atrocities but fail to see Brahminical hegemony in the urban spaces. keywords: ambedkar; caste; cinema; communities; dalit; films; indian; industry; journalism; media; role; social; society; stories; women cache: caste-261.pdf plain text: caste-261.txt item: #38 of 112 id: caste-264 author: Saha, Subro title: Caste, Reading-habits and the Incomplete Project of Indian Democracy date: 2021-05-16 words: 11822 flesch: 43 summary: brandeis.edu/j-caste Caste, Reading-habits and the Incomplete Project of Indian Democracy Subro Saha1 Abstract Emphasizing on the functioning of caste as embodiment, this paper attempts to show how the internalization of dominant caste-based framework(s) shapes our habits of thinking which include epistemological and pedagogical orientations as well. Theory or Practice, Epistemology or Experience: Caste and the embodied habits of reading While talking about caste as hegemony, we can here briefly turn towards some of the points Gramsci had made about the intellectual-function in a capitalist society which, in the case of caste, enables us to engage with the question of embodied perspectives and their role in shaping the intellectual functions. keywords: ambedkar; caste; century; colonial; dalit; democracy; experience; framework; habits; hindu; indian; intellectual; making; nation; new; problem; question; reading; social cache: caste-264.pdf plain text: caste-264.txt item: #39 of 112 id: caste-265 author: Das, Snehashish title: Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest for Personhood of Shudras date: 2021-05-16 words: 9709 flesch: 54 summary: 1Ph.D Scholar, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi E-mail: mx.snehashish@gmail.com Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest 31 Introduction Jotirao Govindrao Phule, alias Jotiba Phule, is associated with the renaissance in Indian history; considered to be the father of modern India, and endearingly called Mahatma (great soul) within anti-caste traditions. Introducing Jotiba to masses in words means creating a readership of masses- as Jotiba Phule (1991b, pp. keywords: caste; continuity; essence; history; india; jotiba; life; marriage; peasant; personhood; phule; satyashodhak; shudras; subject; truth; woman cache: caste-265.pdf plain text: caste-265.txt item: #40 of 112 id: caste-282 author: Bhaskar, Anurag title: 'Ambedkar's Constitution': A Radical Phenomenon in Anti-Caste Discourse? date: 2021-05-16 words: 12519 flesch: 57 summary: Dalits and the democratic revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit movement in colonial India. Did Ambedkar Want to Burn the Constitution? keywords: ambedkar; april; caste; constitution; constitutionalism; dalits; delhi; discourse; ibid; indian; justice; minorities; new; november; phenomenon; rights; state; vol cache: caste-282.pdf plain text: caste-282.txt item: #41 of 112 id: caste-285 author: Kumar, Deepak title: Journey with Rural Identity and Linguicism date: 2021-05-16 words: 8721 flesch: 49 summary: Consequently, minority language medium students are suffering an inferiority complex and consequently losing their confidence. Cutting across language mediums students participate without any hesitation in such an environment. keywords: caste; classroom; discrimination; education; english; groups; india; institutions; instruction; knowledge; language; medium; mother; power; students; university cache: caste-285.pdf plain text: caste-285.txt item: #42 of 112 id: caste-288 author: Pathania, Gaurav J. title: Reflection date: 2021-12-18 words: 800 flesch: 87 summary: के कोने में दुबके हुए से, िछतर ेहुए से काले बादल दूसर:े शेर, बत्तख, चूह,े िचिड़या, गाए और बंदर जैसी आकृित वाले रुई जैसे मुलायम, पूर ेआसमान में फैले हुए सफ़ेद बादल ! के कोने में दुबके हुए से, िछतर ेहुए से काले बादल दूसर:े शेर, बत्तख, चूह,े िचिड़या, गाए और बंदर जैसी आकृित वाले रुई जैसे मुलायम, पूर ेआसमान में फैले हुए सफ़ेद बादल ! keywords: आसमान; बादल; में cache: caste-288.pdf plain text: caste-288.txt item: #43 of 112 id: caste-29 author: Umar, Sanober title: The Identity of Language and the Language of Erasure date: 2020-02-14 words: 13512 flesch: 46 summary: Complex as these ‘constructed genealogies’ surrounding caste may be among lower caste and Dalit Muslims, it nonetheless provided a sense of comfort, and even resilience to many Pasmanda Muslims. Historians and Urdu writers such as Masood Alam Falahi have also pointed out the condescension of Ashraf Muslims towards lower caste and Dalit Muslims often masqueraded under conceptions of class and ‘khandaani’ (family line) values among Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, besides the fact that had Indian Muslims been more vocal against casteism, an even larger percentage of Dalits migh have converted to Islam (Ahmed, 1978). keywords: ashraf; backward; caste; caste muslims; colonial; community; culture; dalit; hindu; identity; india; islam; language; leaders; lucknow; minority; muslims; new; pasmanda; politics; pradesh; press; social; state; university; urdu; uttar cache: caste-29.pdf plain text: caste-29.txt item: #44 of 112 id: caste-292 author: Roy, Ishita title: A Critique of Sanskritization from Dalit/Caste-Subaltern Perspective date: 2021-12-18 words: 6255 flesch: 49 summary: This brings it closer to the kernel point of caste system that Ambedkar gave a glimpse of in “Castes in India”: namely, Brahminhood. With reference to the problem of Scheduled Castes’ accommodation in upper caste localities like Nipani in Karnataka and Kohlapur in Maharashtra, Gopal Guru in “Reservations and the Sanskritization of Scheduled Castes: Some Theoretical Aspects” says, In these towns there are instances where the Scheduled Caste persons have tried to avoid identification of their castes or to hide it altogether or falsify it… the falsification of caste helps them to overcome the psychological problem of identifying themselves as Scheduled Caste. keywords: ambedkar; brahmin; caste; dalit; political; sanskritization; social; srinivas; subaltern; system; varna cache: caste-292.pdf plain text: caste-292.txt item: #45 of 112 id: caste-299 author: Shankar, Shiva; Swaroop, Kanthi title: Manual Scavenging in India: The Banality of An Everyday Crime date: 2021-05-16 words: 4921 flesch: 56 summary: Keywords Manual Scavenging, Caste Atrocity, India, Dalit Women, Human Rights, Safai Karmachari Andolan The Unparalleled Social Abuse of Manual Scavenging ‘Manual scavenging’ is the term used to describe the practice of ‘manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit,’ and a ‘manual scavenger’ is a person engaged in or employed for manually carrying human excreta. The central horror of manual scavenging is the fact that it is an inherited occupation, decided at the very birth, by caste. keywords: caste; crime; february; government; human; india; manual; people; scavengers; scavenging; women; workers cache: caste-299.pdf plain text: caste-299.txt item: #46 of 112 id: caste-3 author: Zene, Cosimo title: Indian Political Theory: Laying the Groundwork for Svaraj date: 2020-02-14 words: 1849 flesch: 46 summary: These very concepts have been translated by Rathore into the ‘Dalit svaraj,’ which, in his theory, becomes also ‘the precondition of Indian political theory,’ since ‘svaraj without Dalit svaraj is tantamount to liberty without equality.’ Singh considers Gandhi and Ambedkar as the most prominent representatives of these two positions. keywords: ambedkar; gandhi; philosophy; rathore; svaraj cache: caste-3.pdf plain text: caste-3.txt item: #47 of 112 id: caste-300 author: Sampath, Rajesh title: A Commentary on Ambedkar's Posthumously Published "Philosophy of Hinduism" - Part II date: 2021-05-16 words: 9477 flesch: 46 summary: Think of a cellular mutation whereby an original cell can no longer tell the difference 12Weber’s work on the sociology of religion would provide a great starting point, not just his famous reflection on the ‘ethic’ of Protestantism and the birth of capitalism, but the considerably long volumes dedicated to religions in China and India and a text on ancient Judaism. Utilizing resources from various modern continental European philosophers and social theorists, particularly of religion, we elaborate on several key passages within Ambedkar’s overall framework of analysis. keywords: ambedkar; caste; commentary; hinduism; history; human; new; philosophy; present; relations; religion; revolution; society; time cache: caste-300.pdf plain text: caste-300.txt item: #48 of 112 id: caste-306 author: Assan, Joseph Kweku title: Ethnic Identity, Discrimination and the Shaping of Remittance Culture in Ghana date: 2021-12-18 words: 9734 flesch: 49 summary: He argues that migrants tend to take on the behavior and practices of mainstream culture at their respective destinations and conceded that migrants might preserve their ethnic values, norms, and tight group solidarity for the benefit of the group members and relatives back home or abandon such values, including sending of remittances for the culture of the dominant social group, possibly to the detriment of ethnic groups members (Lamphere, 2007; Portes and Manning, 1991; Zhou, 1997). The research also shows that migrants from ethnic groups with strong internal cohesion and less assimilation remit more than those from more ethnically heterogeneous groups. keywords: africa; akuapem; caste; development; districts; economic; ethnic; ethnicity; family; ghana; groups; households; identity; members; migrants; migration; north; percent; remittances; study cache: caste-306.pdf plain text: caste-306.txt item: #49 of 112 id: caste-308 author: Sundiata, Ibrahim K title: Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents: A Historical Reflection On Two Cultures date: 2021-05-16 words: 7365 flesch: 61 summary: Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai (2020), critiquing her, remarks: ‘either India has no underlying social programme, grammar and theory, and its social world is simply caste all the way up and down (something I doubt), Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents: A Historical Reflection on Two Cultures 19 or Wilkerson’s dramatic unearthing of caste under the surface of race in the US is just a literary device to tell a familiar American story in an unfamiliar way and is not based on a genuine similarity.’ After all, were every white person in America to wake up tomorrow cured of what Wilkerson terms the “disease” of caste, the change of heart alone would not redress the deprivation Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents: A Historical Reflection on Two Cultures 27 of human, financial, and keywords: african; ambedkar; american; black; caste; dalit; dubois; gandhi; india; king; new; percent; race; rights; states; united; white; wilkerson cache: caste-308.pdf plain text: caste-308.txt item: #50 of 112 id: caste-309 author: Simon, Laurence title: “I Can’t Breathe”: Perspectives on Emancipation from Caste date: 2021-05-16 words: 1764 flesch: 48 summary: Pranjali Kureel’s Indian Media and Caste: of Politics, Portrayals and Beyond contends that the hegemony over the Indian media industry by dominant castes has powerfully inflicted “epistemic violence over the oppressed castes as it helps dominant discourses to prevail and shapes popular perceptions and culture.” From there, Sundiata launches into a tour de force that anchors the American and Indian trajectories for equality around the basic concepts of race and caste. keywords: ambedkar; caste; india; people; rising; sampath cache: caste-309.pdf plain text: caste-309.txt item: #51 of 112 id: caste-313 author: Girija, Chandni title: Ari Varutada date: 2021-12-18 words: 1574 flesch: 65 summary: We faced a rare situation No snacks to nibble with tea Not that it hadn't happened before Having set personal records In finishing great amounts of snacks A 'justified' indulgence for my scholarly full-nighters Often selfishly finishing whole packets Not keeping a single bite for Amma No, today with the fridge looking solemnly half-empty And the dining table spick-and-span Today held no possibility Of heading to the local store To stave off the insistent hankering No, today held no such possibility Today and tomorrow And the coming few weeks That is when I suggested to Amma, “Let us fry raw rice” We faced a rare situation No snacks to nibble with tea Not that it hadn't happened before Having set personal records In finishing great amounts of snacks A 'justified' indulgence for my scholarly full-nighters Often selfishly finishing whole packets Not keeping a single bite for Amma No, today with the fridge looking solemnly half-empty And the dining table spick-and-span Today held no possibility Of heading to the local store To stave off the insistent hankering No, today held no such possibility Today and tomorrow And the coming few weeks That is when I suggested to Amma, “Let us fry raw rice” keywords: ari; today; varutada cache: caste-313.pdf plain text: caste-313.txt item: #52 of 112 id: caste-315 author: Manager, J-CASTE title: Cover and Table of Contents date: 2021-05-20 words: 1329 flesch: 5 summary: Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru Central University, Bengaluru, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar) Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, USA Copyright © 2021 CASTE: ON EMANCIPATION VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Krishna Bhattachan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Clinical Associate Professor of Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Consultation Service; Founding Editor, Anthropol- ogy & Medicine journal (Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom); keywords: bluestone; caste; india; professor; scholar; social; studies; university; usa cache: caste-315.pdf plain text: caste-315.txt item: #53 of 112 id: caste-317 author: Shil, Ashim; Jangir, Hemraj P title: Exclusion of Tribal Women from Property Inheritance Rights: A Study of Tripuri Women of India date: 2021-12-18 words: 6656 flesch: 58 summary: This section deals with the role of gender in accessing inheritance of property rights among women in general and Tripuri women in particular. Survey and FGDs are used as methodological tools to assess the circumstances of Tripuri women with respect to property rights. keywords: exclusion; inheritance; land; ownership; percent; property; rights; tribal; tripuri; violence; women cache: caste-317.pdf plain text: caste-317.txt item: #54 of 112 id: caste-319 author: kumar, Sandeep title: Hariprasad Tamta: Father of Shilpkar Revolution in India date: 2023-05-15 words: 4791 flesch: 63 summary: Hariprasad Tamta has an important contribution in giving a new conceptual dimension to the Shilpkar consciousness. Hariprasad Tamta wanted the complete abolition of the elements of the structure of contempt of Shilpkar. keywords: almora; british; caste; conference; consciousness; government; hariprasad; hariprasad tamta; india; people; shilpkar; tamta cache: caste-319.pdf plain text: caste-319.txt item: #55 of 112 id: caste-320 author: Pariyar, Prem; Gupta, Bikash; Fonseka, Ruvani W title: “When I tell them my caste, silence descends”: Caste-based Discrimination among the Nepali Diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA date: 2022-05-06 words: 6516 flesch: 50 summary: In his ethnographic work, caste discrimination was also observed during housing transactions, renting, and during marriages (2020). Experiences with caste discrimination can impact victims’ mental health. keywords: area; bay; caste; dalits; diaspora; discrimination; dominant; identity; nepali; participants; social cache: caste-320.pdf plain text: caste-320.txt item: #56 of 112 id: caste-324 author: Husain, Zeeshan title: Retro-Modern India date: 2021-12-18 words: 4994 flesch: 63 summary: She coins the term Chamar modernity to make the point that Chamars have their own version of modernity which is overlapping with, yet different from, the modernity as we understand it in common parlance. As mentioned earlier, there are many elements in the making of the Chamar self which make Chamar modernity quite different from the usual caste Hindu modernity. keywords: book; caste; chamars; ciotti; education; hindu; india; middle; modern; modernity; women cache: caste-324.pdf plain text: caste-324.txt item: #57 of 112 id: caste-326 author: Loftus, Timothy title: Ambedkar and the Buddha's Sangha: A Ground for Buddhist Ethics date: 2021-12-18 words: 8807 flesch: 59 summary: A scientifically compatible Buddha who, for the educated and often elite Western receivers of the tradition, can play the foil to the culturally familiar Christian creator God has played a central role in the construction of Buddhism in the West.8 For Ambedkar though, the jewel that takes center stage in his modernist reception of the Buddhist tradition is, in some ways, 6B. R. Ambedkar, “The Buddha and the Future of His Religion,” Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Volume 17, Part 2, pp. Dr. Ambedkar: life and mission. keywords: ambedkar; bhikkhu; buddha; buddhist; caste; dhamma; india; new; practice; saṅgha; social; states; tradition; women cache: caste-326.pdf plain text: caste-326.txt item: #58 of 112 id: caste-333 author: Harad, Tanuja title: A Critical Lens to Understand Gender and Caste Politics of Rural Maharashtra, India date: 2023-05-15 words: 3631 flesch: 55 summary: The Kopardi protest was among the first time that dominant caste women were out in public protests (Aasbe, 2019). To take the presence of dominant caste women as protesters in the public sphere as an indication of their empowerment also ignores the terms that defined their presence. keywords: archie; caste; dominant; masculinity; movie; sairat; women cache: caste-333.pdf plain text: caste-333.txt item: #59 of 112 id: caste-337 author: Sampath, Rajesh title: A Commentary on Ambedkar's Posthumously Published "Philosophy of Hinduism"- Part III date: 2021-12-18 words: 9275 flesch: 50 summary: ’11 Ambedkar is going after the ‘principal’ (Ambedkar, 2014a, p. 10) and not the phenomenal manifestation of early religions’ most salient attributes—namely ‘magic, totem’ and their associated ‘rites, ceremonies’ (Ambedkar, 2014a, p. 10). 219–234 October - November 2021 ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste https://doi.org/10.26812/caste.v2i2.337 A Commentary on Ambedkar’s Posthumously Published “Philosophy of Hinduism” – Part III1 Rajesh Sampath1 Abstract This article forms part III of a running commentary on Ambedkar’s posthumously published “Philosophy of History” (Ambedkar, 2014a). keywords: ambedkar; birth; caste; death; hinduism; human; life; philosophy; preservation; religion; savage; society cache: caste-337.pdf plain text: caste-337.txt item: #60 of 112 id: caste-338 author: Queen, Christopher title: Reading Dalit Autobiographies in English: A Top Ten List date: 2021-12-18 words: 7127 flesch: 65 summary: In contrast to the harrowing school stories in other Dalit autobiographies, Gaikwad’s description of the training of Uchalya children is disturbing: Now Bhagwan-Anna and Samhu Bhau started accompanying Manik-Dada on thieving trips to take charge to stolen bundles. Tracing the origins of Dalit autobiography in the writings of Siddharth College and Milind College students in the 1950s, protest writers in the 1960s, and the Dalit Panthers and their followers in the 1970s, the survey identifies recurring themes of social exclusion, poverty, patriarchy, survival and assertion in the realms of politics, employment, education, and religion. keywords: ambedkar; autobiography; caste; dalit; delhi; english; exclusion; india; life; literature; marathi; moon; movement; new; nimgade; pawar; women cache: caste-338.pdf plain text: caste-338.txt item: #61 of 112 id: caste-339 author: Namala, Paul Divakar title: Norm Entrepreneurship at the UN - Dalits and Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent date: 2021-12-18 words: 14878 flesch: 43 summary: Specifically pointing out the context of women and children of these communities who were distinctly vulnerable to brutal forms of violence, the NGO Conference recognized the role and task of individual states and the UN as a body to eradicate work and descent- based discrimination, including caste discrimination and untouchability. Retrieved through https://www. un.org/en/durban review2009/pdf/Durban_Review_outcome_document_En.pdf Norm Entrepreneurship at the UN-Dalits and Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent 251 The mobilization of Dalit communities and those in solidarity in the entire process of the preparatory conferences and during the Durban World Conference has galvanized other UN bodies like the Committee for Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Sub-Commission, and later the Human Rights Council and the Special Measures of Mandate Holders had begun to evolve policy measures to address caste discrimination. keywords: asia; bodies; caste; caste discrimination; cdwd; cerd; committee; communities; countries; dalit; descent; discrimination; elimination; forms; forum; human; international; norm; rights; special; states; work cache: caste-339.pdf plain text: caste-339.txt item: #62 of 112 id: caste-343 author: Natrajan, Balmurli title: Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women’s Agency-narratives on Caste and Gender Violence date: 2021-12-18 words: 5468 flesch: 53 summary: These include responding to rapes, threats, kidnapping, maiming and killing of Dalits, and destruction of the meagre property possessed by Dalits on an almost daily basis; seeking formal residency rights for Dalit communities living in precarity; seeking to eradicate manual scavenging (a bonded labor practice wherein Dalit women from particular castes are condemned to clean the dry toilets of caste communities and physically dispose the feces); fighting for the right of Dalits to bury their dead in a dignified manner; protesting to end the entrenched and debilitating impacts of illicit liquor brewing within Dalit communities, a business that is a nexus of local politicians, religious leaders, and the underground economic overlords with the connivance of the police; seeking wages for ritually unpaid work Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women’s Agency-narratives on Caste and Gender Violence 387 (such as beating the dappu); and fighting to eradicate long-standing cultural rituals that degrade Dalits especially Dalit women (such as the ritual of forcing newly-wed Dalit women to sleep first with a dominant caste man on their wedding night). Jebaroja Suganthy-Singh’s book, Spotted Goddess: Dalit Women’s Agency Narratives on Caste and Gender Violence deftly places such questions in the mind of a reader, by making them think about how caste, the institution and phenomenon in question above, would appear through the experiences of say, Chitra, a Dalit woman born into historically constructed conditions and identities of caste, gender, sexuality, class and religion that put her to work from the age of five in stone quarries owned by terrorizing caste groups self-aware of their own command over the social distribution of wealth, power, and status. keywords: author; book; caste; dalits; difference; gender; patriarchy; social; subjects; violence; women cache: caste-343.pdf plain text: caste-343.txt item: #63 of 112 id: caste-344 author: Shepherd, Kancha Ilaiah title: Dalit-Bahujan Feminism: A Newly Emerging Discourse date: 2021-12-18 words: 2974 flesch: 51 summary: In regional languages, several Dalit women writers have been producing plenty of writings on the struggles of Dalit women in their day-to-day life—struggles which are unknown to the dwija or the ‘upper’ Shudra women, as they have not dealt with them at any time in their known history. Sex work in the Devadasi4 form or bar sex work form is that which Dalit women are forced into; whereas globally, many women who are employable in other sectors might chose sex work as work for livelihood (Chapter 8). keywords: bahujan; caste; dalit; dwija; feminist; india; women; work cache: caste-344.pdf plain text: caste-344.txt item: #64 of 112 id: caste-347 author: Singh, Roja title: Caste, Gender and Fire in Maadathy: an Unconventional Fairy Tale date: 2021-12-18 words: 2380 flesch: 57 summary: As stated by the Vannar community, Leena brings into the film, women in dominant caste communities as well who seek their own victim-erasure in securing superiority over Dalit men, women, and other gender identities. Co-habiting with danger, Dalit women’s bodies are a hunt for all men irrespective of caste identity who find solidarity with dominant castes in replicating hegemonic masculinity as a cultural normative. keywords: bodies; caste; dalit; film; vannar; women; yosana cache: caste-347.pdf plain text: caste-347.txt item: #65 of 112 id: caste-348 author: KR, Vignesh Karthik; Vasanthakumar, Vishal title: Caste, then Class: Redistribution and Representation in the Dravidian Model date: 2022-05-06 words: 7937 flesch: 50 summary: Seen together, his agrarian and land-related laws were the first bundle of administrative measures that targeted the development of rural Tamil Nadu. Dalit political imagination and replication in contemporary Tamil Nadu. keywords: backward; caste; class; dalits; development; dravidian; india; justice; karunanidhi; model; movement; nadu; percent; periyar; politics; social; state; tamil; tamil nadu cache: caste-348.pdf plain text: caste-348.txt item: #66 of 112 id: caste-352 author: Jayanth, Malarvizhi title: Struggling for Freedom from Caste in Colonial India: The Story of Rettaimalai Srinivasan date: 2022-05-06 words: 8693 flesch: 56 summary: He reads untouchability as a complex of social, political, and economic injunctions, and caste as an external imposition, going on to argue for leadership from Dalit castes to lead the way out of caste subjugation. 13Starting with the declaration that Adi Dravida referred to the 86 Scheduled Castes (referring to the list drawn up in 1935 of Dalit castes), the Tamil pamphlet sketches a history of caste as produced by an Aryan imposition and goes on to argue that the Adi Dravida had attained several advancements under British rule. keywords: adi; autobiography; caste; classes; depressed; dravidian; groups; india; pariah; representation; srinivasan; untouchability; work cache: caste-352.pdf plain text: caste-352.txt item: #67 of 112 id: caste-355 author: Valan, Antony Arul title: Pariyerum Perumal and a Periyarite Note on Political Engagement date: 2022-05-06 words: 10252 flesch: 59 summary: Speech and film, then, have an entwined and enmeshed history in Tamil politics, and I take this formal insertion of speech within films as a guide for the near-filmic momentum I demonstrate in Periyar’s speech later in the essay; that is, borrowing on methods of reading film content to closely read that speech. Tamil films have had a long history with social movements. keywords: article; caste; engagement; father; film; pariyan; pariyerum; periyar; perumal; politics; self; speech; tamil; words; world cache: caste-355.pdf plain text: caste-355.txt item: #68 of 112 id: caste-356 author: Narasimhan, Shrinidhi title: Between the Global and Regional: Asia in the Tamil Buddhist Imagination date: 2022-05-06 words: 9232 flesch: 53 summary: One of the key problematics of studying the global dimensions of a socially- and culturally-rooted movement like Sakya Buddhism is that it occupied a marginal position in the landscape of Asian Buddhism within which it was located. In this article, I explore the global dimensions of Sakya Buddhism through an intertextual reading of its journal, Oru Paica Tamilan, and the work of Asian Buddhists like Henry Olcott and Anagarika Dharmapala who were associated with the movement. keywords: asia; buddhist; caste; dharmapala; india; iyothee; journal; movement; regional; revival; sakya; sakya buddhism; social; south; tamil; thass; world cache: caste-356.pdf plain text: caste-356.txt item: #69 of 112 id: caste-357 author: K, Anish K title: Conceptions of Community, Nation and Politics: The Ezhavas of South Malabar, India and their Quest for Equality date: 2022-05-06 words: 10191 flesch: 58 summary: This defies popular view that the Narayana movement, which originated in Travancore, fostered and shaped lower caste movements in other regions. Then responses of lower caste communities in South Malabar, India’s “blackest spot” on the untouchability map, the land of inequality, are considered for the study (Kumar, 1992; Nayar, 1996). keywords: arya; brahmin; caste; colonial; community; ezhavas; gandhi; government; hindu; india; madras; malabar; movement; nation; new; non; politics; press; public; social; south; university; vol cache: caste-357.pdf plain text: caste-357.txt item: #70 of 112 id: caste-358 author: ., Ganeshwar title: Periyar’s Spatial Thought: Region as Non-Brahmin Discursive Space date: 2022-05-06 words: 9972 flesch: 49 summary: Diverging from the dominant physicalist view of space, this article views Periyar’s politics of space as a radical attempt to subvert the cultural logic of hegemonic nationalism that sustained caste and its privileges through modernity. , it explores Periyar’s conception of Dravida Nadu as an ‘appropriated space’ that attempted to further the pursuit of self-respect as a rationally conceived regional utopia. keywords: brahmin; caste; congress; gandhi; indian; movement; nationalism; non; periyar; politics; region; respect; self; space; tamil cache: caste-358.pdf plain text: caste-358.txt item: #71 of 112 id: caste-361 author: Roy, Suhasini title: Barishaler Jogen Mandal: Construal of the Undisputed Dalit Leader of Undivided Bengal through a Twenty-first Century Bengali Novel date: 2022-06-30 words: 7132 flesch: 41 summary: Reconstruction of the Namasudra life world is a central theme of the novel, not only for its reflection on Mandal’s background, but for providing the theoretical foundation upon which the author rebuilds the political history of late colonial Bengal and posits J.N. Mandal within it. Debes Ray offers a critique of this formulation through his portrayal of J.N. Mandal, with whom, he shows, a new and promising phase of Dalit politics began in Bengal. keywords: author; bengal; caste; colonial; dalit; history; j.n; life; mandal; novel; politics; power; ray; social cache: caste-361.pdf plain text: caste-361.txt item: #72 of 112 id: caste-364 author: Kumar, Santvana; Bakshi, Ekata title: The Dominant Post-constitutional Indian Feminist Discourse: A Critique of its Intersectional Reading of Caste and Gender date: 2022-05-06 words: 10684 flesch: 50 summary: It also became an important tool in legal battles for seeking justice in cases of violence against Dalit women. The first case study emphasizes the importance of understanding how the category of Dalit women is co-constituted with the category of the upper-caste woman, making it imperative to read the two categories together. keywords: caste; caste women; dalit; difference; experiences; feminist; gender; indian; intersectionality; labour; legal; new; partition; post; upper; violence; women; work cache: caste-364.pdf plain text: caste-364.txt item: #73 of 112 id: caste-365 author: Eswaran, Swarnavel title: Maadathy-An Unfairy Tale: Caste, Space, and Gaze date: 2022-05-06 words: 10272 flesch: 61 summary: Thereafter, the depleted and ebbing Yosana musters enough of her feeble energy to crawl and climb over a nearby donkey, almost dropping dead on it. Untouchability runs as a subtext throughout Maadathy as Yosana and her family are marked, even more inhumanely and unjustly, as unseeable people, wherein the onus to be not seen falls on them. keywords: caste; community; dalit; desire; fantasy; film; gaze; gender; lacan; leena; maadathy; people; space; temple; veni; village; yosana cache: caste-365.pdf plain text: caste-365.txt item: #74 of 112 id: caste-367 author: Mandal, Mahitosh title: Dalit Resistance during the Bengal Renaissance: Five Anti-Caste Thinkers from Colonial Bengal, India date: 2022-05-06 words: 10763 flesch: 60 summary: None of the history textbooks for school students in Bengal mention anything about anti-caste movement in colonial Bengal although these are replete with references to the so-called Bengal Renaissance. This article argues that the long history of anti-caste movement in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Bengal has not really been documented in English language scholarship or translations. keywords: bengal; bratya; caste; colonial; dalit; guruchand; harichand; history; karan; kshatriyas; mahendranath; mallabarman; movement; poundras; renaissance; resistance; sarkar; sri; thakur cache: caste-367.pdf plain text: caste-367.txt item: #75 of 112 id: caste-374 author: Samraj, C. Jerome title: Manifestations of Academic Untouchability in India: Exclusionary Practices that Subvert Reservations in Admissions in Higher Education date: 2022-10-28 words: 8296 flesch: 41 summary: As a corrective measure of the historical injustices to certain sections of the society, the state and union governments in India have enacted reservation policies in education and employment. It further calls for the establishment of administrative mechanisms, directly under the apex regulatory bodies, to oversee implementation of reservation policies in all the government educational institutions. keywords: act; cent; pondicherry; reservation; scs; seats; sts; university cache: caste-374.pdf plain text: caste-374.txt item: #76 of 112 id: caste-375 author: Simon, Laurence; Thorat, Sukhadeo title: Margin and Transcendence date: 2021-12-18 words: 2255 flesch: 47 summary: They recognized caste in the plight of the descendants of enslaved persons in such classic ethnographies as Hortense Powdermaker’s After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South,1 and John Dollard’s Caste and Class in a Southern Town2 both of which are discussed more recently in such reviews and commentaries as Jane Adams and D. Gorton’s “Southern Trauma: Revisiting Caste and Class in the Mississippi Delta”3 and the more extensive Allison Davis et al., Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class.4 1Powdermaker, H. (1939). Important intellectuals and social movements associated with caste were absent or played cameo roles. keywords: ambedkar; caste; discrimination; exclusion; journal; south; study; women cache: caste-375.pdf plain text: caste-375.txt item: #77 of 112 id: caste-376 author: Chukka, Helen title: Memory, Grief, and Agency: A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites date: 2022-05-06 words: 1577 flesch: 41 summary: 204 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 3, No. 1 Identifying racism and casteism as structural wrongs, the book first delineates the ways in which such wrongs are systematically and socially conditioned. This legitimization allows such wrongs to permeate into all domains of life without punitive consequences. keywords: grief; text; wrongs cache: caste-376.pdf plain text: caste-376.txt item: #78 of 112 id: caste-377 author: Manager, J-CASTE title: Cover and Table of Contents date: 2021-12-20 words: 1361 flesch: 23 summary: NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Krishna Bhattachan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Clinical Associate Professor of Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Consultation Service; Founding Editor, Anthropol- ogy & Medicine journal (Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom); Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru Central University, Bengaluru, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar) Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, USA Copyright © 2021 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve, and extend access to our journal In memory of Siddalingaiah, poetic voice of the Dalit movement JOINT EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Laurence R. Simon Brandeis University, USA Sukhadeo Thorat (Emeritus) keywords: associate; brandeis; caste; india; professor; social; studies; university; usa cache: caste-377.pdf plain text: caste-377.txt item: #79 of 112 id: caste-390 author: Pathania, Gaurav J. title: Dalits and the Making of Modern India date: 2022-05-06 words: 1748 flesch: 44 summary: A prominent caste scholar, Gail Omvedt (2011), notes that the cultural revolution that had begun in colonial India—and been heralded in struggle and dialectic process long before that—remained incomplete (312). 207–210 April 2022 ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste https://doi.org/10.26812/caste.v3i1.390 Dalits and the Making of Modern India Author: Chinnaiah Jangam (2018) Publisher: Oxford University Press (2017) Rs. 750.00 ($37.95)., pp. keywords: caste; dalits; india; jangam; nationalism cache: caste-390.pdf plain text: caste-390.txt item: #80 of 112 id: caste-398 author: Dhanda, Meena; Manoharan, Karthick Ram title: Freedom From Caste: New Beginnings in Transdisciplinary Scholarship date: 2022-05-06 words: 4879 flesch: 52 summary: Our leading questions were: How have anti-caste themes emerged in cinema, literature, and poetry, and how does anti-caste thought inform social and political movements and vice-versa? Contributors were encouraged to offer analyses of anti-caste thought from a range of perspectives of cultural theory, sociology, linguistics, history, political theory, area studies, or philosophy. keywords: ambedkar; anti; bengal; caste; freedom; india; movement; new; periyar; politics; south; tamil; thought cache: caste-398.pdf plain text: caste-398.txt item: #81 of 112 id: caste-399 author: Manager, J-CASTE title: Cover and Table of Contents date: 2022-05-06 words: 1505 flesch: 15 summary: ANTI- CASTE THOUGHT, POLITIC S AND CULTURE VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Krishna Bhattachan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Clinical Associate Professor of Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Consultation Service; Founding Editor, Anthropol- ogy & Medicine journal (Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom); Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru Central University, Bengaluru, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar) Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary , USA Copyright © 2022 CASTE: Nehru University, India EDITOR Joseph K. Assan Brandeis University, USA REVIEWS EDITOR Jebaroja Singh St. John Fisher College, USA SENIOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Afia A. Adaboh Brandeis University, USA EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH & COMMUNICATIONS Jaspreet Mahal Brandeis University, USA PRODUCTION EDITOR Vinod Kumar Mishra Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, India UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Matthew Sheehy Brandeis University, USA OJS TECHNICAL MANAGER Brian Meuse Brandeis University Library, USA CASTE keywords: associate; brandeis; caste; india; professor; social; studies; university; usa cache: caste-399.pdf plain text: caste-399.txt item: #82 of 112 id: caste-401 author: Ahmad, Tausif title: Politics of Recognition and Caste among Muslims: A Study of Shekhra Biradari of Bihar, India date: 2023-05-15 words: 8465 flesch: 65 summary: Shekhras were inducted in central OBC in 1996 (Entry list 76),33 but after a few years when the government discovered that these people carrying Shekhra Biradari certificates were not genuine Shekhra but of Sheikh caste, they stopped issuing certificates. Going into the depths of history, the roots of Shekhra caste go through Gujarat and Punjab and North-Western border province. keywords: backward; bihar; biradari; caste; certificate; community; india; muslims; people; recognition; reservation; sheikh; shekhra; shekhra biradari; social; society cache: caste-401.pdf plain text: caste-401.txt item: #83 of 112 id: caste-411 author: Singh, Yuvraj title: The Exclusion of Bahujan Schoolchildren: An Anti-Caste Critique of the National Education Policy 2020, India date: 2023-05-15 words: 9730 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords Education, caste, NEP 2020, exclusion, Bahujan, educational inequality, caste and education, Ambedkar, Phule, schooling, school education, social reproduction Introduction In 1882, Jotirao Phule addressed the Hunter Commission (formally, the Indian Education Commission), airing the concern that the (British) government’s education policies served the wellbeing of ‘Brahmins and the higher classes only’ and left ‘the masses wallowing in ignorance and poverty’ (Deshpande, 2002, p. 103). While a growing body of scholarship has accentuated higher education institutions as sites of exclusion for marginalised castes (see: Subramanian, 2019; Sukumar, 2023), there has been relatively less emphasis on school education. keywords: ambedkar; article; bahujan; caste; children; curriculum; education; exclusion; india; march; nep; new; policy; schools; state; students; system; vol cache: caste-411.pdf plain text: caste-411.txt item: #84 of 112 id: caste-418 author: Shekhar, Sudhanshu title: Sanitising India or Cementing Injustice? Scrutinising the Swachh Bharat Mission in India date: 2023-05-15 words: 7516 flesch: 52 summary: When the pits fill up: (in) visible flows of waste in urban India. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. Other studies have also contended government’s claim, like the one reported by the Institute of Labour Economics in January 2019, which maintains that despite a significant increase in toilet ownership in rural India, ‘the fraction of people who now own a latrine, but who nevertheless defecate in the open, did not change between 2014 and 2018’ (Gupta et al., 2019). keywords: bharat; caste; cent; dalits; india; labour; mission; policy; rural; sanitation; sbm; swachh; toilets; urban cache: caste-418.pdf plain text: caste-418.txt item: #85 of 112 id: caste-428 author: Das, Rolla title: Un‘casting’ Universities: Examining the Intersections of Inclusive Curriculum and Dalit Pedagogies in a Private University in Bangalore, India date: 2023-05-15 words: 5828 flesch: 49 summary: Universities have become spaces where caste stratifications between Dalit and non-Dalit students are reinforced and Dalit students routinely encounter “overt and covert discrimination based on caste” (Maurya, 2018; Ovichegan, 2013, quoted in Maurya 2018) which forces them to dropout (Anveshi Law Committee, 2002; Vasavi, 2007). Hence, while on one hand, upper caste students claim “caste as a practice of the past and denies witnessing it in contemporary society” (2020, p. 106) often denying its existence (Pan, 2022), on the other hand, students from the marginalised communities maintain silence (Mittal, 2020) or look for alternative articulations of their identities. keywords: caste; class; classrooms; curriculum; dalit; india; pedagogy; social; students; universities; university; vol cache: caste-428.pdf plain text: caste-428.txt item: #86 of 112 id: caste-429 author: Wankhede, Asang; Kahle, Alena title: The Human Dignity Argument against Manual Scavenging in India date: 2023-05-15 words: 9908 flesch: 43 summary: Indeed, especially practitioners have commended that the Act sees manual scavenging as a social justice rather than sanitation issue, that “it recognizes a constitutional obligation to correct the historical injustice and indignity suffered by manual scavenging communities by providing alternate livelihoods and other assistance” (Human Rights Watch, 2014, p. 5), and that it “explicitly adopts an understanding that manual scavenging is [...] against the spirit and essence of the Constitution of India” (Koonan, 2021, p. 157). We bring out contradictions and limitations in the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on manual scavenging and show that it misses out on deploying its own strong anti- untouchability and human dignity-based jurisprudence in the judicial treatment of manual scavenging. keywords: act; approach; caste; dignity; exclusion; human; india; life; manual; right; scavenging; sci; social; untouchability cache: caste-429.pdf plain text: caste-429.txt item: #87 of 112 id: caste-435 author: Siwach, Manoj; ., Bharat; Jakhar, Babloo title: Chains of Servitude: Bondage and Slavery in India date: 2022-10-28 words: 2181 flesch: 45 summary: In this essay, the author has discussed several issues such as urban chattel slavery, the framework of caste within the slaves, the hereditary nature of bonded labour, the emergence of another form of slavery (other than chattel slavery and bondage), i.e., agrestic slavery, domestic slavery, indentured labour, the religious shade of slavery and bondsman and even the system for manumission. Due to the shades of the caste and economic conditions on each other, delineating slave labour categorically is not an easy task. keywords: bondage; caste; india; labour; period; slavery cache: caste-435.pdf plain text: caste-435.txt item: #88 of 112 id: caste-44 author: Drèze, Jean title: The Revolt of the Upper Castes date: 2020-02-14 words: 3776 flesch: 63 summary: Lower castes are passing better life than upper castes. He said: ‘Castes play the same role in Hindu society that furrows play in farms, and help in keeping it organised and orderly… Castes can be fine, but casteism is not…’5 The Revolt of the Upper Castes 231 To look at the issue from another angle, Hindutva ideologues face a basic problem: how does one ‘unite’ a society divided by caste? keywords: bjp; castes; golwalkar; hindutva; india; nationalism; rss; society; system cache: caste-44.pdf plain text: caste-44.txt item: #89 of 112 id: caste-441 author: Gupta, Indrani; Ranjan, Avantika title: Health Investments to Reduce Health Inequities in India: Do We Need More Evidence? date: 2022-10-28 words: 6886 flesch: 57 summary: The study concludes that to attain Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)- 3, there is a need to increase health spending in especially lower middle- income countries. Table 8: Health financing indicators for countries with significant UHC Countries with significant UHC Domestic Government Health Expenditure Per Capita, PPP (current international $), 2019 Domestic Government Health Expenditure (% of GDP), 2019 Norway 6194 9.0 Germany 5238 9.1 France 4137 8.3 Japan 3847 9.0 Turkey 925 3.4 Brazil 610 3.9 Thailand 524 2.7 China 493 3.0 Sri Lanka 269 1.9 India 69 1.0 Rwanda 58 2.6 Source: World Bank Open Data A recent World Health Organization report (WHO, 2020) indicates that health financing vulnerabilities that existed prior to 2020 will also affect health spending in the coming years post COVID. keywords: bihar; cent; diseases; expenditure; government; health; india; sector; spending; states; total cache: caste-441.pdf plain text: caste-441.txt item: #90 of 112 id: caste-442 author: Narayan, Navin title: Enculturalising Casteism in Health Care in India date: 2022-10-28 words: 9099 flesch: 55 summary: Hutton (1963), the last administrator scholar to review the existing theories of caste, remarked that although most of these theories had contributed to the subject, they generally emphasized the phenomena ‘rather than the causes of caste system’. A brief view of caste system of North West Provinces and Outh. keywords: ambedkar; care; caste; casteism; cent; class; dalit; delhi; doctors; economic; health; illness; india; new; social; society; sociology; system; varna cache: caste-442.pdf plain text: caste-442.txt item: #91 of 112 id: caste-443 author: Ziyauddin, K.M. title: Situating Hadis’ Occupation and Caste: Exclusionary Journey from Manual Workers to Sanitation Workers in India date: 2022-10-28 words: 10601 flesch: 68 summary: Keywords Dalits, manual scavengers, exclusion, Jharkhand, ethnography, Hadi caste, sanitation worker, safai karamchari 1Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India E-mail: ziyakm@manuu.edu.in 1Ziyauddin, K. M. 2016. Hadi castes were already into scavenging occupation but mostly employed in the municipality way back from 1977 onwards and continued to do work in the sanitation department of the Municipal Corporation. keywords: bokaro; caste; census; chas; children; cooli; exclusion; hadi; hadi cooli; india; jharkhand; manual; new; occupation; people; population; social; state; work; workers; years cache: caste-443.pdf plain text: caste-443.txt item: #92 of 112 id: caste-444 author: Baru, Rama V.; Zafar, Seemi title: Social Inequities in Private Health Sector Workforce in India: Religion, Caste, Class, and Gender date: 2022-10-28 words: 10283 flesch: 54 summary: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 3, No. 2 While the above statistics are cumulative that includes the public and private sectors, available estimates show that the situation of private health sector is much worse. The study based on private health sector in Siliguri, West Bengal notes the transformation of nursing homes to limited companies owing to mergers and acquisitions by corporate giants, however, labour relations continuing to be informal especially for care workers who remain semi or unskilled. keywords: caste; cent; class; data; doctors; health; health sector; health workers; hospitals; india; nurses; nursing; public; sector; social; staff; study; urban; workers; workforce cache: caste-444.pdf plain text: caste-444.txt item: #93 of 112 id: caste-445 author: Tandon, Achla Pritam title: Media Coverage and Corona Induced Health Emergency: Understanding Prejudice, Stigma, and Social Inequalities in India date: 2022-10-28 words: 7244 flesch: 55 summary: The few times men and boys would try out something it would always be highlighted and shared as an achievement par excellence through social media. In the case of the coronavirus, social media has not only propagated doubtful rumours on the emergence of the virus, but also has brought forth absurd methods for prevention. keywords: access; corona; coronavirus; coverage; disease; health; india; information; media; pandemic; people; prejudice; spread; stigma; virus; world cache: caste-445.pdf plain text: caste-445.txt item: #94 of 112 id: caste-446 author: Guite, Nemthianngai title: Addressing Hegemony within the System of Medicine for an Inclusive and Sustainable Health System: The Case of Traditional Medicine in India date: 2022-10-28 words: 4624 flesch: 38 summary: Often, local practitioners using traditional medicine knowledge are not given their due credit (Reddy, 2006). The domination and superiority of biomedicine over traditional medicine have been visible from postcolonial time to till date. keywords: care; healers; health; india; knowledge; medicine; ministry; practitioners; social; system cache: caste-446.pdf plain text: caste-446.txt item: #95 of 112 id: caste-447 author: G., Dilip Diwakar; Viswambaran, Visakh; M.K., Prasanth title: Impact of Covid-19 on Livelihood and Health Experiences of Migrant Labourers in Kerala, India date: 2022-10-28 words: 7179 flesch: 57 summary: Due to a combination of all these historical factors, Kerala state was already at an advantage at the time of its formation in 1956. While looking at the health access and utilisation of migrant workers, factors like lack of awareness about the provision of health facilities, lack of confidence in accessing the health services due to apprehensions about approaching the healthcare system, language barriers, cultural bias and patriarchal dominance affects the inter- state migrant workers from accessing healthcare services (Babar, 2011; John et al., 2020). keywords: caste; cent; covid-19; crisis; food; government; health; healthcare; india; kerala; lockdown; public; state; study; workers cache: caste-447.pdf plain text: caste-447.txt item: #96 of 112 id: caste-448 author: Khan, Khalid title: Inequality in Access to Medical Education in India: Implications for the Availability of Health Professionals date: 2022-10-28 words: 6541 flesch: 56 summary: One may note that the inequality is high in access to medical education which also indicates that the prevailing inequality among health professionals is linked to the existing inequality in higher education. Despite continued expansion of higher education, the equity in access to higher education is still a major concern; it becomes highly exclusive when access to professional courses is examined (Khan, 2022). keywords: access; cent; courses; education; health; muslims; share cache: caste-448.pdf plain text: caste-448.txt item: #97 of 112 id: caste-449 author: Kumar, Kanhaiya title: Differences in Access to Health Resources: An Analysis of Disparities among Dalit Sub-castes in Uttar Pradesh, India date: 2022-10-28 words: 6352 flesch: 58 summary: The case reports of the respondents facilitate an understanding of the intersection of social identity, economic status and spatial inaccessibility of health services as barriers in accessing health care services. Some studies also note that as compared to non-Dalits, the utilization of health services are lower among Dalits (Ram et al., 1998; Kulkarni and Baraik, 2003; Baru et al., 2010). keywords: access; caste; chamar; differences; economic; health; resources; respondents; services; social; sub cache: caste-449.pdf plain text: caste-449.txt item: #98 of 112 id: caste-450 author: Raushan, Rajesh; Acharya, Sanghmitra S.; Raushan, Mukesh Ravi title: Caste and Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Health and Nutrition in India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey date: 2022-10-28 words: 7707 flesch: 61 summary: 345–364 October 2022 ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i2.450 Caste and Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Health and Nutrition in India: Evidences from National Family Health Survey Rajesh Raushan1, Sanghmitra S. Acharya,2 and Mukesh Ravi Raushan31 Abstract This study is on caste inequality in child health outcomes: mortality, malnutrition and anaemia for the year 1998/99 to year 2019/21 and examines the association of socio-economic factors with outcomes. Caste and Socioeconomic Inequality in Child Health and Nutrition in India 351 Results of the Study Progress on Child Health Outcomes In India, progress on child health outcomes have been widely accepted and are the reflection of various programme and policy interventions during the last two decades. keywords: anaemia; caste; child; children; health; india; inequality; malnutrition; mortality; raushan; social cache: caste-450.pdf plain text: caste-450.txt item: #99 of 112 id: caste-451 author: Pal, G. C. title: Being Insider-Outsider: Public Policy, Social Identity, and Delivery of Healthcare Services in India date: 2022-10-28 words: 10738 flesch: 54 summary: Being Insider-Outsider: Public Policy, Social Identity, and Delivery of Healthcare Services in India 241 While high caste service providers in a pursuit of maintaining high caste identity and autonomy, tend to show differential behaviours towards low caste users of health services, low caste service providers, on the other hand, under the influence of dominant social norms, face conflict in course of providing health services to different social groups. Given that public health services are the only options for marginalized groups including low caste groups, when low caste service providers cannot ensure health services within their own community due to dominance of other socio-cultural norms, this is a challenge for achieving inclusion in the health services. keywords: access; aww; caste; cent; children; delivery; health; health services; healthcare; healthcare services; households; identity; providers; services cache: caste-451.pdf plain text: caste-451.txt item: #100 of 112 id: caste-452 author: Muralidhar, S. title: Appearing in Court in India: Challenges in Representing the Marginalised date: 2022-10-28 words: 11066 flesch: 55 summary: Legal aid to the poor does not mean poor legal aid: Justice Lalit. In a critical study of the public defender system in the USA, Charles Silberman found that defendants, who were represented by legal aid lawyers, said ‘He’s not my lawyer, he is the legal aid’, and that in the court “when judges ask who the lawyer is in the case at hand, legal aid lawyers typically answer, ‘I’m standing up for this case,’ not ‘I’m representing this client,’ let alone ‘I’m representing Mr. Jones’” (Silberman, 1978). keywords: act; aid; april; bar; cases; caste; challenges; court; criminal; india; journal; justice; law; lawyers; legal; person; rights; section; services; system; times; vol; work cache: caste-452.pdf plain text: caste-452.txt item: #101 of 112 id: caste-453 author: Acharya, Sanghmitra S. title: Health Disparity and Health Equity in India: Understanding the Difference and the Pathways Towards Policy date: 2022-10-28 words: 6001 flesch: 50 summary: Disparities, Inequities and Inequalities in Health It is necessary to understand that health disparity is embedded in health differences linked with economic, social, and environmental disadvantages. As evident from the Healthy People (2020), ‘Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic-status, gender, age, or mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.’ keywords: access; caste; disparities; disparity; economic; equity; groups; health; healthcare; india; public; social cache: caste-453.pdf plain text: caste-453.txt item: #102 of 112 id: caste-459 author: Manager, J-CASTE title: Cover and Table of Contents date: 2022-10-28 words: 1552 flesch: 15 summary: A G LO BAL J O U R NAL O N SOCIAL E XCLUS IO N CASTE, UNEQUAL STATUS, AND DISCRIMINATORY ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES IN INDIA VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Professor of Cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, C & I NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Con- sultation Service; Founding Editor & Editor-in-Chief, Anthropology & Medicine (Taylor and Francis, UK); Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Visiting Professor, National Law School of India University; formerly Founding Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru City University, Bengalore, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar) Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary , A Global Journal on Social Exclusion is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve, and extend access to our journal u n to u ch a bl e a n d r el ig io n ; m ix ed m ed ia ; 1 7x 11 c m ; S a v i Sa w a rk a r Appearing in Court in India: Challenges in Representing the Marginalised S. Muralidhar Manifestations of Academic Untouchability in India: Exclusionary Practices that Subvert Reservations in Admissions in Higher Education C. Jerome Samraj JOINT EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Laurence R. Simon Brandeis University, USA Sukhadeo Thorat (Emeritus) keywords: associate; brandeis; caste; health; india; professor; social; studies; university; usa cache: caste-459.pdf plain text: caste-459.txt item: #103 of 112 id: caste-468 author: ., Preeti title: 'Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader' date: 2023-05-15 words: 2006 flesch: 45 summary: Aloysius et al. argue that dominant caste feminists often disregard the caste- based exploitation of women that poses greater risks to Dalit women due to their caste location in the varna system. At the same time, the authors question the very aspect of choice and argue that Dalit women would choose another job over sex work if they could maintain their dignity while earning comparable pay. keywords: caste; chapter; feminist; theory; women cache: caste-468.pdf plain text: caste-468.txt item: #104 of 112 id: caste-470 author: Pathania, Gaurav J.; Jadhav, Sushrut; Thorat, Amit; Mosse, David; Jain, Sumeet title: Caste Identities and Structures of Threats: Stigma, Prejudice and Social Representation in Indian universities date: 2023-05-15 words: 10417 flesch: 56 summary: Through a Right to Information Act file, it was learned that in the viva-voce portion of the exam, lower caste students were given 1 or 2 and sometimes 0 points. Negative emotions in self, such as embarrassment, shame, and guilt, lower self-esteem (Turner & Stets, 2005, p. 119) and “labeling the other impure and subhuman is psychological ethnocide”.26 In other words, universities are becoming “socially toxic” spaces for lower caste students. keywords: caste; dalits; delhi; discrimination; education; exclusion; humiliation; identities; identity; india; journal; new; research; stigma; students; suicide; teachers; universities; university; upper; vol cache: caste-470.pdf plain text: caste-470.txt item: #105 of 112 id: caste-497 author: Singh, D. P.; Chanda, Srei; Dwivedi, L. K.; Dixit, Priyanka; Jana, Somnath title: Importance of Caste-Based Headcounts: An Analysis of Caste Specific Demographics Transition in India date: 2023-05-15 words: 8680 flesch: 58 summary: In that context, the research is focused upon a broad classification of caste category such as forward or unreserved, scheduled castes (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and other backward castes (OBC). Inequality across caste is prominent for varying health and development outcomes, which is a subject less researched till date. keywords: age; caste; cent; fertility; india; mortality; nfhs; population; rate; rounds; social; vol cache: caste-497.pdf plain text: caste-497.txt item: #106 of 112 id: caste-54 author: Arya, Sunaina title: Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism date: 2020-02-14 words: 5844 flesch: 55 summary: Dalit women speak out: violence against dalit women in India. They argue that dalit men, as a part of their exploitation by ‘upper’ caste, also face taunts regarding their masculinity which results in their aggressive behaviour towards dalit women; which has been termed as ‘dalit patriarchy.’ keywords: caste; feminist; gender; indian; patriarchies; patriarchy; rege; savarna; society; women cache: caste-54.pdf plain text: caste-54.txt item: #107 of 112 id: caste-6 author: N, Nakkeeran; Jadhav, Sushrut; Bhattacharya, Aruna; Gamit, Sunil; Mehta, Chetan; Purohit, Pratiksha; Patel, Ruchi; Doshi, Minal title: Recasting Food date: 2020-02-14 words: 7640 flesch: 55 summary: In Bhavnagar village the Kharak, Aahir, Mali, and Koli families practised this tradition between them, but not with other caste groups below them. Individual families from other caste groups may consume these foods too. keywords: awc; awcs; caste; children; communities; community; families; food; groups; households; muslim; programme; snp; village cache: caste-6.pdf plain text: caste-6.txt item: #108 of 112 id: caste-654 author: Mishra, Vinod Kumar title: Caste and Religion Matters in Access to Housing, Drinking Water, and Toilets: Empirical Evidence from National Sample Surveys, India date: 2023-05-15 words: 10582 flesch: 48 summary: Table 7: Access to bathroom Sector Access to Bathroom Exclusive use of Household Common use of Household in the building Public/ community use without payment Public/ community Use with payment Others No bathroom Rural 50.3 6.1 0.07 0 43.4 0.25 Urban 75.0 15.9 0.15 0.01 8.8 0.16 Slum 59.3 13.2 1.26 0.04 25.9 0.25 Non-slum 76.2 16.1 0.05 0.01 7.5 0.15 Source: NSSO, 76th Round, 2018 Analysis of inter-group inequality for bathroom shows that like other basic amenities, marginalized social group households have lower access to bathroom for exclusive use of households than high caste households. Table 2 shows that the inter-social group inequality in accessing exclusive water source is quite high. keywords: access; amenities; caste; caste households; groups; households; housing; probability; social; water cache: caste-654.pdf plain text: caste-654.txt item: #109 of 112 id: caste-655 author: Acharya, Sanghmitra S. title: ‘Breaking Barriers: The Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary’ date: 2023-05-15 words: 2285 flesch: 54 summary: They also inform us about the values that Madhava Rao cherished most and followed diligently in all his official and personal dealings, subsequently as he held various offices. Madhava Rao was not only noticed but also marked when as the District Collector he stood by the marginalised groups against powerful political forces, resulting in his transfer. keywords: author; book; chapters; rao; secretary; social cache: caste-655.pdf plain text: caste-655.txt item: #110 of 112 id: caste-665 author: Simon, Laurence title: Latitudes of Marginality in India date: 2023-05-15 words: 729 flesch: 40 summary: Sanitising India or Cementing Injustice? The Exclusion of Bahujan Schoolchildren: An Anti-Caste Critique of the National Education Policy 2020, India explores the nature of educational inequality with direct reference to the social reproduction of caste. keywords: caste; india; issue cache: caste-665.pdf plain text: caste-665.txt item: #111 of 112 id: caste-69 author: Pramod, Maya title: As a Dalit Women date: 2020-02-14 words: 8377 flesch: 65 summary: Kallara Sukumaran, a Dalit activist and writer put forward certain policies such as making atrocities against tribes as a national offence, giving land to the landless and to build a hostel for girls of scheduled tribes, and to make a law that provides land ownership of Dalits and Adhivasis , and to provide mid-day meals in schools. Only then can the 114 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 1, No. 1 ghettoization of an entire populace brought about and institutionalized through the so-called ‘welfare schemes’ be understood.5 If you look at the problem of land rights in Kerala you will clearly see how and when the dalits/adivasis and other backward classes got ousted from the exchanges of the symbolic capital. keywords: act; adivasi; capital; caste; caste colonies; cents; colonies; colony; communities; dalit; government; kerala; land; life; people; power; society cache: caste-69.pdf plain text: caste-69.txt item: #112 of 112 id: caste-96 author: Narayan, Vivek V. title: Mirrors of the Soul date: 2020-02-14 words: 16371 flesch: 53 summary: The doctrine of sin and practices of repentance held, for slave castes, a simultaneous acknowledgement of their interiority, agency, and capacity for transformation. We need not subscribe to the missionary’s condemning attitude towards ‘heathen’ practices of worship, nor affirm his unshakeable faith in Christianity, to learn about the spiritual lives of slave castes before Christianity, and their transformation through 132 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 1, No. 1 colonial modernity. keywords: caste; colonial; consciousness; discourse; equality; everyday; guru; hawksworth; human; humanity; individual; jati; kali; missionary; new; practices; saiva; self; slave; soul; suffering; theory; transformation; travancore; universal; yuga cache: caste-96.pdf plain text: caste-96.txt