Deva, Music Director, Tamil and South Indian Films. [29] Dhanush: (born: Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja) Important star in Tamil, had a nationwide superhit song in Indian English; starred in A-list Hindi-Urdu film; married into Tamil cinema’s first family. Caste: Paraiyar: i) [30],...
Don’t Miss :Kadva Patel-Patidar Surnames List Which castes come under Brahmin? Chitpavan and Karve in Brahmin, Nishad Iyengar and Hegde in Karnataka, Namboodiripad in Kerala, Iyengar and Iyer in Tamil Nadu, Niyogi and Rao in Andhra Pradesh, Das and Mishra in Orissa etc. Joshi caste is al...
The term of the commission has been extended to 31 May 2019. Its report stated that prime beneficiaries of 97% OBC reservation includes Yadav, Kurmi, Jat (Jats of Rajasthan except those of Bharatpur and Dholpur district are in Central OBC list),Saini, Thevar, Ezhava and Vokkaliga castes. ...
A list for those who want to counter the propaganda of the caste system in India: The word ‘caste’ is a Portuguese import. The original context was the casta of the New Christians (the Muslim and Jew converts) and the casta of the Old Christians in the Iberian Peninsula. The old and...
to the consequent development of Tamil/Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu, caste has frequently been redefined and politicized by being drawn into wider discourses about race.1 But while colonial conceptualizations of 1 See Peter Robb, ed., The Concept of Race in South Asia SOAS Studies in South ...
On the other hand, I also wrote:Tamils who don’t protest Tamil casteism in Sri Lanka lose the moral right to protest Sinhalese racism.(Italics in the original.) ———- – – No kidding!! – – Please give us a summary of all your claims, ….. such as the one being related to...
Among culturalist perspectives, Islamophobia and racialization/cultural racism have risen in the 21st century as the two dominant frameworks employed to understand Muslim marginality in Europe. At the turn of the century, the term “Islamophobia” (literally meaning “fear of Islam”) arose as a le...
For example, the Sikh representatives in the committee constituted to frame a Constitution for independent India publicly acknowledged the presence of “untouchable” caste groups among the Sikhs and insisted that they be included in the list of Scheduled Castes (SCs) being prepared for assigning ...