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Casteism and the Tsundur Atrocity

2021
The postcolonial history of India involves many of these brutal cases of organized caste-based violence in the rural landscape. The attacks in Andhra Pradesh, in Karamchedu in Prakasam district (1985) and in Tsundur village in the neighbouring Guntur district (1991), represent two brutal instances, although several other atrocities took place before ...
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Casteism and Caste Intolerance in India: A Study on Casteism of Contemporary West Bengal

Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2020
‘Casteism’ and ‘politicization of caste’ are common phenomena of Indian society since the beginning of the twentieth century. Violation of social rights and caste discriminations of plural characters have added additional complexity to them. Casteism has thus appeared as a burden of postcolonial Indian society.
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Eco-casteism

2018
This chapter examines some of the significant lines of environmental conceptions in India since the 1980s. It pays critical attention to caste and its expression or marginalization in environmental discourses. It attempts to show how Brahmanical religious traditions and their arguments have had a powerful resonance in India’s dominant environmental ...
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Micro-level Manifestations of Casteism in Select Malayalam Dalit Short Stories

Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2023
Kerala’s social sphere is well-stocked with the elements of modernity like literacy, democracy, equality and fraternity, which makes it difficult to identify and classify casteism and its effects. The projected image of modernity makes Kerala’s public sphere more accessible and permissible to minority groups when compared to other states.
Christina Romeo, Anupama Nayar
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Influence of Casteism in Modern Nepal: A Sociological Perspective

Marsyangdi Journal, 2022
Casteism is a hierarchical phenomenon where prejudice occurs on the basis of caste superiority. It occurs disparity and injustice among human beings. So, the New Civil Code declared the practice of untouchability illegal. But the practice of caste discrimination is still existed in the various spheres of life in Hindu society.
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Political revival of casteism in Tamil Nadu

Social Change, 2002
This article attempts to analyse the behaviour of the ruling political parties and the consequences of emerging casteism in Tamil Nadu during the last thirty years of Dravidian rule in a historical perspective. It argues that, instead of getting eradicated, the caste system has got revived and vertical polarisation amongst castes has taken place in ...
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