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Reception Histories of Bahujan Narrative Identity: The Many Forms of Non-Brahmanism

by rti_adminon February 2, 2017March 20, 20230

Saket Moon Introduction The trope of the unity of the Non-upper caste, Non-Brahman as the vanguard of the socio-political revolution has one that has, at least since Phule, been an important part of the Maharashtrian discourse. So much so that on the eve of the formation of Maharashtra as a state of independent India, …

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Janeu, The Cat’s Cradle

by rti_adminon December 28, 2011March 20, 20230

Gopal Guru (First published in Outlook magazine in March 2009) Brahmins are fashioning new political rhetoric from old stereotypes Let me begin this piece with a dramatic question: what are Brahmins doing in political parties? Let me make it even more dramatic: what are they doing in non-Brahmin, Dalit or Dalit-led parties? If these questions …