This paper asks whether and how caste fits into a global history of racial capitalism. The mischaracterisation of caste as custom has long misled analysts and thwarted solidarities. Drawing on the insights of two important bodies of literature, this paper seeks to reme...
but because it has escaped one of the worst evils of India.By remaining faithful to Buddhism, which the Indians rejected as being of such sublime spiritual value as to be entirely beyond the grasp of the average man, it has escaped the rigors of the caste system which until very recently ...
I think about the new school year starting, and how things like traffic patterns change (for the good and for the bad). Back to school sales. Labor day. The last of the grilling hangouts. What does September bring to mind for you? As always, if you’d like this resized or made for...
Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road. —Bob Dylan 0 We must tak...
side by side in the same physical environment, with one group engaged in egalitarian communal living (each female producing her own young, but sharing chores with other females) and the other living under a strict eusocial regime with a full caste system under the rule of a single fertile ...
Time is against Yamamoto however, as his own retirement looms large - and so does the momentum of UMAJF. ▼quote: The father of the Indonesian nation, and the leader in its struggle for Independence: all this, and more, can be used to characterize Soekarno, the President of the ...
snow than English does, and because of this, they have a richer and more vivid experience of snow. This factual claim has apparently been discredited (I suspect that the factual dispute turns on what “word” means and what “having” a word means.) But even if it were true, so what?
Pankaj Mishra:I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can’t think of any literature—perhaps Russian literature in the nineteenth century comes close—so exclusively produced by and closely identified with a tiny but powerful ruling elite, the upper-caste, Anglophone...
word, Does the new York state permit international drivers license?JP, I've found that the best resource for drivers license issues in the US is http://www.dmv.com. They provide info for every state and that is important because drivers licenses are state based....