• We've got to talk about caste

  • May 31 2023
  • Length: 27 mins
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  • Caste is one of the most complicated and misunderstood concepts encountered when attempting to understand India and Hinduism. Yet caste and a so-called caste system have become the singular focus of how Indian and Hindu society and culture are seen by the West — and increasingly being focused on by activists within the diaspora.


    Sources:

    • German Indology, Aryanism, and Anti-Semitism, by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
    • The Indian Caste System and The British – Ethnographic Mapping and the Construction of the British Census in India, by Kevin Hobson
    • The Brahmin, the Aryan, and the Powers of the Priestly Class: Puzzles in the Study of Indian Religion, by Marianne Keppens and Jakob De Roover
    • Caste Confusion and Census Enumeration in Colonial India, 1871–1921 by Kevin Walby and Michael Haan
    • Census in Colonial India and the Birth of Caste by Padmanabh Samarendra
    • Ethnographic inquiry in colonial India: Herbert Risley, William Crooke, and the study of tribes and castes by C.J. Fuller
    • ‘Untouchable’: What is in a Name?, by Simon Charsley
    • Scheduled Castes vs. Caste Hindus: About a Colonial Distinction and Its Legal Impact, by Jakob de Roover



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