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Many scholars believed that industrialization and modernization would ultimately lead to the destruction of the caste system ... discussing the newsroom representation of the DBA (Dalit-Bahujan ...
This delay comes after members of the Brahmin community raised concerns about their representation in the ... removal of a voiceover discussing the caste system. They have also demanded the ...
Mirroring India’s caste system of social hierarchy ... research institutes — roughly correspond to these communities’ representation in the population, according to the most recent census ...
California might become the first state in the nation to ban discrimination based on caste, a hierarchical system based on birth that affects ... and South Asian activists arguing over the correct ...
Risley had a dramatic influence on the rise of caste ... caste system from all over the subcontinent. In the late 19th century, upper-caste Indian elites sought political reforms and ...
made caste a protected class this year, and several universities, including the 23-campus California State University System ... caucus without inclusive representation from the Indian diaspora ...
Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that the caste system should be dismantled to promote national unity has evoked both surprise and suspicion. In its centenary year, is the RSS willing to walk the talk ...
Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...
Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...
Confirming the delay in film release, director Ananth Mahadevan reacted to the claims regarding caste representation ... a voiceover discussing the caste system in the film.