Caste systems impact as much as a fifth of the ... They have a set hierarchy. Each varna has a line of work associated with it and they're handed down through family lines. Brahmins are at ...

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 ...

KK Kochu spearheaded a cultural and democratic transformation in Kerala’s Dalit movement, steering it toward a cultural and democratic turn in the wake of the Mandal-Masjid era and the rise of ...

“Instead, deliberate usage of the loaded term ‘caste’ coupled with Hindu archetypal terms like ‘Dalit’, ‘varna’, ‘Brahmin’ ...

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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