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The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of poppies [PDF]

, 2016
Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novels Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing ...
Thiara, N
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Caste, race, and slavery

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023
While diving into the background ideas about caste and race as legal categories, a researcher will discover an important disagreement between scholars: For some, caste is certainly connected with race, whereas for others, caste and race are separate ...
Martin Farek
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The Visible ‘Caste Gaps’ amid an ‘Invisible’ Caste System in West Bengal, India: A Study of Discrimination in Bengali Society

Caste
The invisibility of the caste system in Bengal is so firmly ingrained in the psyche of the upper-caste Bengali Hindu population that any acknowledgement of the same by the bhadralok class appears to be a pipe dream.
Manas Patra
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Instant Casting Movie Theater: The Future Cast System

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2008
We have developed a visual entertainment system called “Future Cast” which enables anyone to easily participate in a pre-recorded or pre-created film as an instant CG movie star. This system provides audiences with the amazing opportunity to join the cast of a movie in real-time.
A. MAEJIMA, S. WEMLER, T. MACHIDA, M. TAKEBAYASHI, S. MORISHIMA   +4 more
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Buddha, Bhakti, and Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’s Dialogue with Indian Religions [PDF]

, 2017
This article analyzes how Sebastian Kappen S.J. (1924-1993), a social thinker and one of the most radical Indian liberation theologians, related to Indian religions.
Goddeeris, Idesbald, Thekkemuriyil Antony, Mathew   +1 more
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Towards a Multispecies Approach to Caste in Sinhala Society: Interspecies Dynamics between Cinnamon and the Salagama People

Caste
This article deploys a multispecies perspective to understand the role of human and non-human actors shaping the Sinhala caste system in Sri Lanka. Apart from human interlocutors, certain animal species (e.g.
Kalinga Tudor Silva
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Sanitising India or Cementing Injustice? Scrutinising the Swachh Bharat Mission in India

Caste, 2023
Occupational competence and division of labour in India have historically been linked to social institutions of caste, class and gender. Labour related to sanitation and waste disposal has perpetually been assigned to the most backward caste groups. The
Sudhanshu Shekhar
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Population stratification and genetic association studies in South Asia [PDF]

, 2005
Population stratification and its influence on genetic association studies is a controversial topic. Although it has been suggested that stratification is unlikely to bias the results of association studies conducted in developed countries, convincing ...
Bittles, A.H.
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On the Difficulty of Refuting or Confirming the Arguments about the Caste System

Theatrum Historiae, 2016
Any attempt to understand Indian society through the scholarship on caste confronts us with a large number of problems. Scholars of the last 150 years have routinely observed and even criticised writings on caste for these problems.
Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan
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Colonialism and Liberation: Ambedkar’s Quest for Distributive Justice [PDF]

, 1999
Ambedkar denounced caste system for violating the respect and dignity of the individual; yet his critique of caste-ridden society also foregrounds the limits of the theory and practice of citizenship and liberal politics in India ...
Verma, Vidhu
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