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mānas

“How does caste shape our digital lives? In this episode of Caste Conversation, youth share their experiences navigating through social media: from building their online presence to confronting online discrimination, violence, and misrepresentation. They talk about the challenges marginalized communities go through in digital spaces, what triggers online caste-based abuse, and what extra barriers persons with disabilities face in accessing digital media. Watch now for thought provoking discussion on the intersections of caste and the digital divide!

What sets Caste Conversation apart? 
Each episode dives into critical intersections of caste with topics like climate, justice, digital equity, and gender dynamics. Through these 12 thematic areas, we aim to foster empathy, solidarity, and collective action against caste-based discrimination, sparking a ripple effect of awareness and empowerment.”

#Caste #DalitLivesMatter #Nepal

(Nepali with English subtitles)

youtu.be/2lEzcAYU25Y?feature=s

YouTubeCASTE CONVERSATION | Caste and Digital Divide | EP1By Dalit Lives Matter
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Ben Waber

Next was a vital panel on how caste and race manifests, evolves, and reproduces through emotions at CRASSH with Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Hugo Gorringe, Gopal Guru, and Jusmeet S. Sihra. This is a deep exploration of how people experience caste and racial hierarchies and what it will actually take to dismantle them. Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=YJSgMXMEBi (11/12) #sociology #Dalit #caste #India

YouTubeCRASSH | Affective life of hierarchiesBy CRASSH Cambridge
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Ben Waber

Next was an important panel on Dalit feminist perspectives on caste and society at CRASSH with Manuela Ciotti, Rupali Bansode, Shannon Philip, Meera Jatav, and Priyanka Kotamraju. Jatav's account of her experience starting an independent newspaper was particularly powerful. Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=dkgQAecFvF (10/12) #sociology #Dalit #caste #India

YouTubeCRASSH | Centering Dalit feminist perspectivesBy CRASSH Cambridge
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries

"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."

Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

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Pirate Praveen

"The caste-privileged elites of the Hindu and non-Hindu religions denied the existence of #caste in public life, and in private, they pretended to be above caste. In their public and private lives, of course, they hardly associated with the oppressed castes, except as their servants and manual labourers. The erasure of caste from public life also helped them protect their inherited caste privileges, as they did not need to self-reflect on their subjectivity." thewire.in/caste/who-is-afraid #india

The WireWho Is Afraid of a Caste Census?Instead of building a robust ideology that can challenge Hindutva – a task they have failed to carry out – many liberals are busy delegitimising social justice politics. Rahul Gandhi has become a target of attack for them because of his insistence on the need for caste enumeration
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Did you know #NewAtheism is being ressurected in #India?

I'm not talking about the #FourHorsemen or their white, middle class disciples (but there is a connection!)

- "old #atheism" associated with #rationalism and #communism in a region of South India (#Kerala)
- there, new atheism was introduced in part by dissemination of Western #newAtheists (now spread in #esSENSEglobal's Summer camps and other church-like activities)
- India's new atheism seems linked to #caste and #neoliberal #politics

Some information about Kerala (in South India)
Some details about "Old Atheism" in Kerala, India.
Some information about the New Atheism in India (disseminated both online and in person)
Some info about what's new in India's New Atheism movement
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Have you heard of #HinduAtheism?

Feryl Badiani shared quotes from interviews in her talk, #Atheism in Hindus.

Some themes:
- "#Caste played a unique role in mitigating theism"
- There may have also been an "intersection between #education and caste"

You can follow Feryl on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Feryl

This @wikipedia article was also educational (for me): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_at

The presenter
Some quotes related to caste and "mitigating theism"
More quotes mentioning caste, education, and religion/God/faith
#hinduism#religion#ethnography
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amba azaad

Over on bluesky I posted a thread of Indian publishers with Dalit, Adivasi and casteism related titles in their catalogue. It's not complete, and I'll keep adding to it. ( @h_tejas feel free to point me to resources I may not know about, like Marathi publishers.)

bsky.app/profile/did:plc:owv2c

(Anyone can access that link right? You shouldn't need a bsky account to read it.)
#caste #India

Bluesky Social · Amba Azaad (@ambaazaad.bsky.social)OK before I forget a list of Indian Dalit, Adivasi and casteism focussed publishers and book lists for @freyaa.bsky.social 📌for future reference: In English for now though I will add others later. I haven't read every book in every list but can give specific feedback for titles/authors if you ask
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SPQR

Namaste MoFos: "Prakash and Kamal Hinduja, as well as their son Ajay and his wife Namrata, were found guilty of exploitation and illegal employment by a Swiss court and handed sentences ranging from four to four-and-a-half years."
#EatTheRich #exploitation #India #caste #bigotry #HumanTrafficking #legal
bbc.com/news/articles/c3ggl6pe

www.bbc.comHindujas: UK's richest family convicted of exploiting servantsFour Hinduja family members were given prison sentences ranging from four to four-and-a-half years.
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IndiaNewsWatch

Urban Marginalisation in Kashmir: The Vulnerabilities of 'Watals' in Sheikh Colonies of Srinagar

Socio-economic challenges, limited access to basic amenities, and a sense of exclusion from mainstream society characterise the daily life experiences of inhabitants of Sheikh colonies. Lack of private space, congested houses, and unhygienic conditions underscore the pervasive nature of urban marginalisation within the colonies. A three-part series of essays by the Visual Storyboard team of the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), O.P. Jindal Global University, working in Kashmir for a manuscript project focusing on new subaltern voices of communities from the Valley.

#kashmir #srinagar #caste #sheikhs #labour #marginalisation #KashmiriMuslims #india

Part 1: thewire.in/urban/urban-margina

Part 2: thewire.in/urban/urban-margina

The WireUrban Marginalisation in Kashmir: The Vulnerabilities of 'Watals' in Sheikh Colonies of SrinagarSocio-economic challenges, limited access to basic amenities, and a sense of exclusion from mainstream society characterise the daily life experiences of inhabitants of Sheikh colonies. Lack of private space, congested houses, and unhygienic conditions underscore the pervasive nature of urban marginalisation within the colonies.
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