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No caste without Jati, Varna, Dvija and Adhama
Now we have a neo-varna system: General Category (GC), Other Backward Communities (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). Earlier everyone wanted to be the higher varna, the dvija ...
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Rutgers task force report urges university to add caste discrimination ban
“Instead, deliberate usage of the loaded term ‘caste’ coupled with Hindu archetypal terms like ‘Dalit’, ‘varna’, ‘Brahmin’ ...
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Caste, class, and Patidar agitation: Veteran academic 'unearths' Gujarat’s social history
After waiting for a few days, I decided to go through the paper titled "Neo-liberal Economy and Middle-class Patidar ...
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Caste Fission and Fusion
This is an appeal to the subscribers, contributors, advertisers and well-wishers of Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), published by Sameeksha Trust, a public charitable trust registered with the ...