Hinduism and Caste: A Counter Narrative
The media and academic narrative today presents Hindu civilization as a negation of 21st century egalitarian norms. While elements of this description are not entirely incorrect given the hierarchy and exclusion More...
A Postscript To The World Of Varṇa
(Co-authored by Hari Ravikumar) Based on some of the feedback we received for our article on varṇa, we felt that it would be valuable to bring out a few more insights into the idea of varṇa and share some more More...
Exploring the World of Varna
Introduction Varṇa, the system of classification of society into different groups, has been a topic of much controversy, debate, and deliberation. The numerous studies on varṇa fill up whole bookshelves and More...
Contemporary Evangelism and the Resurrection of the Colonial Politics of Race, Caste and Religion
‘’The modern writing of Indian history developed during the last two centuries. The needs of these times had encouraged the adoption of certain attitudes and theories about Indian Past…….some of these stereotypes More...
Census 2011 Religion Data: Numbers Matter
Religion and Caste have been the two great determinants of Indian history, politics and social organisation. These two parameters are so important that no field level administrator can possibly do without knowing More...
Musings of a Hindu Savage
I am a Hindu savage. And I need to be civilised. My friends would have you believe so. A recent conversation with a high school friend of mine on Hinduism reminded me of a scene from the 80s movie, Crocodile Dundee. Dundee More...
Dear APSC worthies: Here is what Ambedkar really said
In the wake of the recent IIT Madras controversy, we are witnessing the unfortunate phenomenon of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s august name being dragged in for petty political gains—from the Nehru-Gandhi scion of the More...
The dangers of a “centralized” Hindu voice
Distributed resistance One of India’s key strengths through the ages has been its ability to defend its way of life against all odds, whether it was in 1857 or the centuries and millennia before that. Today, India, More...
The Myth of the Hindu Right
In media accounts today, particularly in India, it seems that any group which identifies itself as Hindu or tries to promote any Hindu cause is quickly and uncritically defined as ‘right-winged’. In the Marxist More...
RAJDEEP SARDESAI CLEAN BOWLED BY NATIONALIST GOOGLY
Beginning in the late 1980s and throughout most of the 1990s, the slogan Garv Se Kaho Hum Hindu Hain’ was countered with ‘Communalism/Fascism is on the rise’ headlines on several newspapers. If translated More...