TAMIL NADU has a Janus-faced attitude towards caste. Occasionally, as Hindi-belt states have been rocked by disturbances over caste based reservations, it has appeared as if caste considerations are less politicized in the South. Regional and linguistic nationalism, the long history of caste based...
In the 1990s the Dalit movement began adopting a more aggressive approach to ending caste discrimination, and many converted to other religions, especially Buddhism, as a means of rejecting the social premises of Hindu society. At the same time, the officially designated “Other Backward Classes”...
A typology of the past among the Pramalai Kallar subcaste reveals three means of transmission of the past -written, audio and oral- which differ from each other both in terms of content as well as in terms of their function in the re-production of the social identity of the Pramalai ...
as in this record.Ants Among Elephantsis a family chronicle but since that family consisted of untouchables, it is inescapably an indictment of caste: “Because your life is your caste, your caste is your life.”However, Gidla’s life is not typical of untouchables. Her parents...
This means that either of the parents could (and should) start the process of acquiring citizenship after they are married, if she/he is of foreign origin. A person eligible for citizenship by descent can obtain a citizenship certificate in the name of “his/her mother or father” (Article...
Thomas suggests secularism, inter-religious dialogue, and conscientization as means towards humanization. The process of humanization is a radical shift from individual to collective salvation, sacralization to secularization and Church-centred ... J Rajaiah 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Secularizing the Sacre...
“a means of imposing control and effecting exclusion” (Roy2005).Footnote7Cultural theorist Homi Bhabha moves from this spatially oriented critique to one of time as progress, that is a “Western nationalist discourse which normalizes its own history of expansion and exploitation by inscribing the...
Saurashtra and its Prakrit name Sorath, literally means "good country". Who speaks sourashtra? It is closely related to the Gurati language also. This script began development towards the latter part of the 19th century.Sourashtra Community members living in the Indian States of Karnataka, Andhra...
Now that activism has moved online, initiatives like Round Table India, The Blue Dawn, Genderlog, Dalit Camera, and the Queer Muslim Project redefine what it means to be a member of a marginalised community in contemporary India. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtKxD3tnnmD/ ...
this, my concern is with what Kancha Ilaiah termed the "global mobility" of "caste," the means of its movement from more local to less local contexts, and with the vehicles that transport it across these terrains: aspects of the discourse of race, in conjunction with that of human rights...