The delimitation exercise in Assam has not only redrawn the boundaries of the constituencies but also political fault lines of the state. Hailed by a section as a step to safeguard the rights of indigenous communities and critiqued by another for...
Marking a historic moment in the global struggle against caste injustice, recent legislations in Seattle and California explicitly ban caste discrimination. The legal category of caste in these pieces of legislation is a product of decades of...
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Ostensibly to decolonise and modernise India’s criminal justice system, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (which attempts to replace the Indian Penal Code) has been criticised for retaining much of the colonial language and approach that the IPC did. One of...
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Trapped to Triumph The death at 38 of the fastest woman in the world, sprinter Florence Griffi th Joyner, 10 years after she had retired from competitive athletics, is infi nitely sad because it has not only revived the debate...
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This reading list explores the history, impact and implications of the Unlawful Activities (...
The variations in COVID-19 infections and deaths reported in Indian states as of 31 March 2021 have been analysed. While the proportion of people living in densely populated areas, per capita net...
This paper explores the economics of contract versus non-contract potato farming in West Bengal, India, using primary data collected from a household survey of 263 farmers (2021–22 potato season)...
On one hand the BJP defines SC, BC castes as Hindus, and on the other hy banning beef denies them their age-old food habits. If beef is banned it will he the beginning of the end of the country's...
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The assertion of autonomous dalit women's organisations in the 1990s threw up several crucial theoretical and political challenges, besides underlining the brahmanism of the feminist movement and the...
This paper examines the role of 'Hinduism' in the course of socio-historical development in the Indian subcontinent, how there has been a gradual process of construction of a 'Hindu', community and...
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Baburao Bagul’s short story, “Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti,” reveals how caste fundamentally perpetuates different kinds of theft.
Poonguzhali is sexualised and objectified by the characters of Ponniyin Selvan and the film-maker on account of her marginalised caste.
Traditional fisheries in the Gulf of Mannar have a 200-year-old history of being criminalised, based on a colonial framing of threats of conservation.
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