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Casteism amongst Punjabis in Britain [PDF]

, 2017
Despite clear evidence of caste-based discrimination, harassment and victimisation, Punjabis in Britain stand divided on identifying with the victims of casteism. In the context of legislative, religious and academic contestations on caste discrimination
Dhanda, Meena
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Critical Perspective on Communalism and Casteism in Nepal

European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022
This paper attempts to deal with the contemporary social issues of Nepal, particularly, communalism, and casteism from the critical perspectives propounded by the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, namely, Max Horkheimer in “Traditional and Critical Theory” (1937) and Herbert Marcuse in “Critical Theory” (1968). Its main objective is to challenge the
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Social Psychological Explorations of Caste: Unravelling Challenges and Discovering Opportunities

Caste
Despite our expectations that technological advancements, globalization, and the ensuing modernity and equality would strip away the relevance of caste hierarchies, caste remains a significant aspect that drives Indians’ social experiences.
Iram Fatima, Maria Zafar, M. Rejoyson Thangal   +2 more
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The God of the oppressed and the politics of resistance: Black and Dalit theologies of liberation [PDF]

, 2014
Theologians from the Black communities in the USA, South Africa and other places, and Dalit groups in India have struggled with a dialectic between the retrieval of subjectivity within political spaces inflected by ‘race’ and ‘caste’ and the opposition ...
Barua, A
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‘Scheduled Tribe Dalit’ and the Recognition of Tribal Casteism [PDF]

Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 2020
While the term ‘tribalism’ in the West draws from outmoded anthropological theory to describe the hardening of partisan group boundaries, in Himachal Pradesh it describes the contested recognition of caste heterogeneity within Scheduled Tribes (ST). Based on 15 months of fieldwork among Gaddis, this article seeks to understand the intersectionality of
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Caste and higher education: the Rohith Vemula case [PDF]

, 2016
Last month a 26 year old Dalit PhD student at the University of Hyderabad took his own life following an unjust indictment from the administration. Amal Shahid writes that despite a progressive constitution and policies to support lower caste access to ...
Shahid, Amal
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We Are Conscious of Caste, but Do We Live Our Lives through It? A Case Study of Gendered Caste Marginality

Religions
Despite the strict rejection of casteism by the Sikh faith, caste-based hierarchies are still a prevalent factor amongst Sikh diasporas within the UK. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork amongst women whose caste is considered to occupy a lower status,
Parvinder Kaur
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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes

, 2016
Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women.
Girard, Victoire
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Le point de vue des fonctionnaires dalits sur les quotas d’embauche de la fonction publique

Droit et Cultures, 2007
Job quotas in the public sector have led to the formation of a class of government employees and officers from amongst the « untouchables » (Dalits), who emerged socially from an unprivileged and socially stigmatized section of society.
Nicolas Jaoul
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Culture as ‘Ways of Life’ or a Mask of Racism? Culturalisation and the Decline of Universalist Views [PDF]

, 2015
I begin and conclude the article by arguing that culturalisation has contributed significantly to the decline of the Left and its universal ideals.
Ahmed, Saladdin
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