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Caste
ISSN 2639-4928 · Brandeis University Library · 208 artikel di indeks
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The Legitimacy of the Derogated Caste ‘Chandal’ till the 19th Century
This article explores the process of caste stigma and questions about its reliability. The Chandals were a social group primarily comprising the aboriginal peoples of the Indian subcontinent, later placed at the bottom of the Hindu caste system. In the case of Bengal, the first literary mention of…
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Ethnographic Tradition of Positive Hailing: Dalit Women, Caste-gaze Inversions and Celebrations of Body and Identity in Viramma: Life of an Untouchable, India
This article engages Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (1995), one of the earliest ethnographies to foreground a Dalit woman’s voice, marking thirty years since its publication. Viramma’s oral testimonies in this work continue to influence Dalit women by fostering positive body image, participatory…
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Changing Names, Unchanging Caste and the Law in India
In recent times, several claims have been made before Indian courts to seek the change of one’s first name or surname. Such claims are being made for many different reasons out of which one reason stands out which is to hide one’s caste identity, namely to hide one’s untouchable or Dalit identity…
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“Daat Faadu Mahilaye”: Dalit Women’s Laughter and Disruption of Casteist Structures, India
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2022 to 2024 in two urban villages in Delhi, I investigate how Dalit women’s laughter functions as a powerful site of anti-caste resistance and feminist praxis. Moving away from dominant frameworks that foreground grief and victimhood, I centre…
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Social Boycott: Caste, Informal Power, and the Reinvention of Village Governance in Rural Telangana Economy, India
This article examines social boycott as a contemporary form of caste power in rural Telangana society and economy, focusing on the role of Village Development Committees (VDCs) originating from the informal caste councils. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 20 respondents (8 women and 12 men; 8…
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From Agrestic Slaves to Untouchable Gods: Remembering the Repressed History of Caste Slavery and the Resistance of Pulayas in Kerala through Ritualistic Folk Art, India
The empirical ordering of the upper castes through scriptural doctrines delegitimized the subaltern epistemology and impeded the possibility of any form of resistance. The article finds relevance in delving deep into the subversive acts of the most marginalized against Brahmanised hegemonic…
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From the Pali Turn to The Buddha and His Dhamma: Reading Ambedkar as a Philologist
This article reconstructs B.R. Ambedkar as a philologist by engaging with three different strands of his scholarship. First, it traces his work on language in general and his construction of Pali as a language emblematic of Buddhism. By following cues in Ambedkar’s own writings and historicizing…
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Maadhuri Hireker: Education, Emancipation, and an Ambedkarite-Buddhist Woman’s Journey from India to the UK
This article presents a transnational oral history of Maadhuri Hireker (b. 1940), a first-generation educated Ambedkarite woman whose life traverses rural Maharashtra, the historic moment of Buddhist conversion in 1956, and the institutionalization of Ambedkarism in postwar Britain. Grounded in…
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The Three S’s of Being: Swayambhu, Skandhas, and Śūnyatā in Ambedkar’s Deconstruction of Caste-Self
This article examines how B.R. Ambedkar deployed three interconnected Buddhist philosophical categories—swayambhu (self-becoming), skandha (aggregates), and anattā (selflessness)—to construct a systematic critique of caste as simultaneously a metaphysical, social, and epistemological formation…
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From the Tea Gardens to the Clinic: Adibaxi Health in Assam and Caste and Indigeneity in Indian Modernity, India
The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity. Two theoretical interventions become possible through a social inquiry that begins in the…
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Rethinking Knowledge, Unthinking the Brahminical
This article introduces a Dalit decolonial feminist standpoint as an epistemic and political framework that redefines feminist thought through four interrelated pillars. It argues that decolonial and postcolonial frameworks remain constrained by their inability to recognise caste as the…
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Jetor: An Unrecognized Caste Community in West Bengal
Based on ethnographic research methodology, this article engages with the questions of identity, recognition, and major economic activities of the Jetor(s), a riverine, as yet unrecognized, partly-pastoral, in-marrying, ethnic group dwelling in forestine (Jangal Mahal) West Bengal, India. If the…
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The Policy Paradox: Persistent Manual Scavenging Despite Reform Efforts
Manual scavenging remains a persistent issue in India despite the state claiming zero instances of the practice in recent years. This degrading occupation, deeply entrenched in the caste system, is driven by societal segregation and caste-based discrimination, affecting marginalised communities…
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Researching with Dalit Women Activists: An Intersectional Feminist Social Work Approach
Aligning with an intersectional feminist social work approach in a simultaneity of process and praxis, this article traces and attempts to create an agenda of research that foregrounds how ‘Dalit women’s lives matter’ in feminist research and mobilization at the grassroots. Through critical and…
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Exploring Strategies to Maintain Tribal Identity in Sundarban Island, India
The Munda people are one of the first tribal settlers in the Sundarban region, but most of them are landless or hold a small agricultural land. Living in small hamlets spread in different parts of the Sundarban islands, they are influenced by the socio-cultural lives of Bengali neighbours. The…
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Reproduction of Caste Privilege in Elite Educational Institutions
This article, embedded in empirical work in two colleges of a central university in Delhi, focuses on how caste privilege is legitimized and reproduced within elite higher educational institutions. Unlike non-elite educational institutions, these spaces claim to anchor themselves in notions of…
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‘I’m an Upper Caste Myself’: Caste Identities in Negotiating Casteism
Caste is the single most important determinant of life outcomes in India (Pathania et al., 2023; Teltumbde, 2022; Yengde, 2019). Caste is pervasive—in our homes, friendships, places of worship, love and marriage, clothing, language, food, and more. Caste as a ‘system’ of oppression is, at its core…
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The Arrogation of Being Tamil and Other Campaigns Against Caste Discrimination in Jaffna, 1927–1957
For decades, scholars have interpreted twentieth-century Sri Lankan Tamil history through the prism of sovereignty. From calls for communal representation in the early decades of the century, to the attempt to establish Tamil Eelam at its close, the Sri Lankan Tamil effort to chart a self-directed…