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,…
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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…
There’s a new Shudra-Dalit unity in north Indian villages thanks to the farm protests
The unity programme initiated by farm leaders can take the shape of a cultural revolution in rural north India. KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD A supporter waves the tricolour at farmers’ gathering in Jind district in Haryana | Suraj Singh Bisht One…
The Supreme Court’s Question About Reservations Is the Wrong One to Ask
“If bhadralok judges do not feel for the chotolok as much as the white judges in America feel for the blacks, India will crack” Bengal is an example of how the bhadralok treated the chotolok, but Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu…
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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd: ‘Abolish reservations and private education!’
‘Where should shudra-OBCs go because of whom the nation is surviving?’More like this‘Reservation will outlive 2019, 2024 polls…’ Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters On March 15, 2021, the Supreme Court commenced hearing into whether the landmark 1992 verdict in the Indira Sawhney…
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PU Library Organized Books’ Introductory Talks The Punjab University Library conducted its March 2021 Book Club program in which introductory talks on two books were presented. The books of the month were “Maqalat-e- Shams Tabrazi by Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Tabrazi” and…
A Book of the Farmers by the Farmers and for the Farmers
in Book Review — by Grant McFarland — March 8, 2021 A Review article on the recently launched book edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd and Karthik Raja Karuppusamy “The Shudras–Vision For New Path” number one bestseller on Amazon India’s farmers have sustained the largest protests in…