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Data from the study bolsters the demands to remove the cap on 50% caste quota and conduct a similar exercise at a national level; BJP not only unnerved but also confused about how to respond to the issue; “Nine Reasons Why Numbers Revealed by Bihar Caste Census Could Shake Up National Politics”.
There is no real coming out in caste. It’s always in and out.
More than a criticism of religion, ‘samadharma’ is a commitment to equality and to a secularism that can guarantee it.
The PM Vishwakarma Yojana mirrors past caste-based exclusionary policies, confining marginalised groups to traditional occupations and impeding their access to higher education, contradicting constitutional principles of justice and equity.
Udayanidhi Stalin’s statement that he’s prepared to furnish the writings of Periyar and Ambedkar to defend his comments on sanatana dharma indicates the larger context of radical, anti-caste critiques of religion in India, then and now. Also: “The BJP May Defend ‘Sanatan Dharma’, But Can’t Define What it Means”.
Data collected by the APPSC shows that reservation is violated in faculty composition of all IITs. In IIT Delhi, only 2% of faculty are SC, 1% ST, and 7% OBC. The remaining 90% positions are filled by savarnas. Same is the case for IIT Bombay where 94% are savarnas, with just 2% OBC, 3% SC, and 1% ST.
It is unfortunate that the Government of India has once again lied on the deaths in sewer and septic tanks. How can the government claim that there is no manual scavenging when people continue to die in sewer and septic tanks?
Gandhi’s thinking on caste must be frameworked within his opposition to capitalist modernity and its destructive effects on the peasant. His ambivalences on caste owe to his efforts to integrate his idealized philosophical stances with his responses to the contingencies of the freedom struggle.
Dalits and Adivasis are preponderant in the temporary labour migrant workforce across the country. While they form only 25% of the population, official estimates show that they make up more than 40% of the seasonal migrants.
During both the creation and withdrawal of the Bill, the government did not consider the livelihoods and lives of the millions of caste-oppressed landless, marginal, and small farmers who depend on livestock for their survival. Also: The Livestock Export Bill has been Withdrawn for Now But Disregard for Live Animal Trade Remains”.
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