The phrases “strongest bulwark” and “greatest obstacle”, though superficially dramatic, carry weight as are used by missionaries themselves, making this entire argument more difficult to dismiss as being biased or even “brahminical” – an opinion further consolidated by a similar declaration from...
Jyotirao Phule, born in 1827, was the most vocal among the “low-caste” leaders. He attacked the Brahmans’ declaration of their superiority to others. He argued with the Aryans foreigners, who came from outside the subcontinent. They defeated and subjugated the real children of us and d...
I began this paper with a conversation between myself and Mustafa, who migrated half a century ago as a guest worker from Turkey to Berlin, and I will now return to that more granular level, drawing from two years of ethnographic research (across the period of 2013–2017) with the Şehi...
Women's education, age at first birth, permission to seek medical help for self, and household decision making turned out to be statistically insignificant in the decomposition model. Similarly, region of residence had positive but relatively insignificant contribution towards the gap. 4. Discussion ...