in COVID19 India — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Ever Since the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine came to power in 2014 the deepest crisis it is facing is the Covid-19 dance of death. As of the end of…
Supreme Court’s flawed verdict on Maratha quota shows why factoring caste history is crucial
Caste and varna abolition is now in the hands of RSS/BJP, which claims to represent all Indian Hindus, not just Dwijas, the upper castes. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD8 May, 2021 12:44 pm ISThttps://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://theprint.in/opinion/marathas-lack-the-power-of-written-word-supreme-court-cant-ignore-it-like-communists-did/654482/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint TeamText Size: A- A+…
What YS Sharmila’s leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes | The News Minute
What YS Sharmila’s leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes In some respects, YS Sharmila’s upcoming political party is the first of its kind in south India. IMAGE: YS SHARMILA REDDY Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd In south India so far,…
The Shudras at the Heart of Tikait
KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD A new way to fight Dwija hegemony Rakesh Tikait holding The Shudras—Vision for a New Path book with his two hands at his heart shows a new shift in the Indian and more particularly in the North Indian agrarian…
Shudras And The Central Universities
in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd A well-known Dalit scholar Gopal Guru, presently editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, once wrote that “Indian Social Science represents a pernicious divide between theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras’ (2002). But Shudras did not get much…
G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy – The Hindu
Review G. Sampath This anthology brings the spotlight on challenges facing a people who form not only the majority of India’s population but also the majority among Hindus The term ‘Other Backward Classes’, or OBCs, is an administrative category. It…