Should you raise a ‘vegetarian’ dog? Some pet advice from a sociologist

Denying dogs meat-based food is associated with the compulsive privileged caste obsession with purity.

Suryakant Waghmore

· Oct 24, 2022 · 06:30 am

Supreme Court grants protection to inter-caste couple from arrest, provides them security

A vacation bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Surya Kanta said the couple faces a serious threat to their lives from their family.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 10, 2020 · 11:49 am

Chhattisgarh: Case filed against former CM Ajit Jogi after panel rules that he is not Adivasi

Ajit Jogi’s son Amit Jogi said the family has filed a writ petition against the government-appointed committee’s order on his father’s caste.

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· Aug 30, 2019 · 11:20 am

Ajit Jogi is not Adivasi, rules Chhattisgarh government panel; former CM may lose Assembly seat

The High Court had ordered the state government to reconstitute the panel in 2018.

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· Aug 27, 2019 · 03:05 pm

Haryana: 24 villages decide not to use caste as surnames

The head of the Khera khap said the decision was taken as caste seemed to have divided society.

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· Jul 01, 2019 · 12:16 pm

What Europeans contributed to the caste system in India

It is known what the word comes from ‘casta’ in Portuguese. But when the Iberians came to Asia and the Americas, they began classifying people by descent.

Sumit Guha

· Jun 27, 2018 · 01:30 pm

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says dining with Dalits is not enough to end casteism: Reports

He said BJP leaders should not just eat food in Dalit homes, but also talk to people to get rid of caste barriers.

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· May 04, 2018 · 12:25 pm

Does the US have a caste problem? An Indian scholar thinks so

India’s rigid hierarchical system offers a way to understand inequality in America.

Subramanian Shankar, The Conversation

· Jan 29, 2018 · 01:30 pm

‘Kakkoos’ director Divya Bharathi leaves Tamil Nadu after allegedly receiving rape, attack threats

On August 1, Bharathi had said she had received hate calls for her depiction of a backward caste community in her documentary Kakkoos.

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· Aug 12, 2017 · 03:22 pm

Railways dump Swachh Bharat posters showing Ambedkar, Gandhi evolving from apes to put trash in can

Dalit groups say that the depiction of Ambedkar picking up rubbish recalls odious memories of manual scavenging.

Sujat Ambedkar

· Aug 04, 2017 · 09:10 pm

How Ola and Uber are helping chip at the caste and class barriers in India

The gig economy in India is becoming a confluence where white collar professionals and former manual scavengers come together.

Nikhil Inamdar

· Aug 21, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Amit Shah goes to lunch: Breaking bread with Dalit voters is now a popular political gesture in UP

But the BJP president's cautious experiments with food seem to betray a certain queasiness within the party’s upper caste leadership.

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jun 03, 2016 · 09:00 am