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Glad to announce that my first research article as
@azimpremjiuniv
faculty, "Revisiting the Minority Imagination: An Inquiry into the Anticaste Pasmanda-Muslim Discourse in India," published by Critical Philosophy of Race, is out.
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"No communal riot in India can last for more than 24 hours without the consent of the state."
--Vibhuti Narayan Rai, IPS (Retired), writer and novelist
#DelhiRiots
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Kangana's tweet had hurt the "system". The system does not like to be associated with 2002. Remember the Karan Thapar interview where the system abruptly left midway when probed on 2002 violence. Twitter is pleasing the system, not containing hate speech.
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A Dalit man Nagaraju was stabbed to death in Hyderabad by his wife's family, who are Syeds, the highest caste among Muslims. Caste is anti-love. Nagaraju and Ashreen's union was an insurrection against the brutal caste order. Nagaraju was martyred today. Rest in power, friend!
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EWS must go. Reservations are for representation and not poverty alleviation. Retweet if you agree.
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Those who live by the bulldozer, will die by the bulldozer. All regimes perish by an excess of their basic principles. This regime will not be an exception.
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In another chilling incident, a Dalit youth was blown up by the HC Thakurs near Lucknow on 22/23 June. There has hardly been any media coverage or political mobilization. The poor Bahujans have been reduced to beasts of burden that can be preyed upon with impunity. [Link below]
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"I am not your data,
...I am not your project, or any exotic museum object,
...or your entertainment at India habitat center,
I am not your field, your crowd, your history,
your help, your guilt, medallions of your victory
-Abhay Flavian Xaxa
#Oscars2023
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19 Muslim MLAs in Bihar Vidhan Sabha 2020
Ashraf: 15 [Syed 2, Pathan 2, Sheikh 5, Syed-Mallick 1, Surjapuri Sheikh 5]
Pasmanda: 4 [Kulhaiya 3, Mansoori 1]
Only 7 Muslim castes represented out of over 50.
Let this sink in!
#BiharElectionResults2020
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Interestingly, Tamil Nadu performs worse in intercaste marriages when compared to states like UP and Bihar. While the national average is 9.9%, the figure for TN is 2.6%. UP is 8.6%, and Bihar is 4.7%.
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The government must screen Jabbar Patel's movie "Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar" on Doordarshan on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti (14th April). Retweet if you agree.
#AmbedkarJayanti2020
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Happy Teachers Day! Today is the 190th birthday of the most illustrious lady teacher of Indian subcontinent, Savitribai Phule.
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The call for an "economic boycott" of Pasmanda Muslims by BJP MP Parvesh Verma is against the Constitution, Dharmic principles of natural justice, and the recent reassurances by PM
@narendramodi
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“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
Remembering, Father Stan Swamy ✊
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Marx, Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Periyar have their “universal” and “particular” moments in their career.+
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Happy birthday
#UstadBismillahKhan
(21 March 1916– 21 August 2006)
A Pasmanda brother belonging to the 'halalkhor' (sweeper) caste who mesmerised the world with his shehnai and gave a glimpse of how music dissolves all boundaries.
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85-90% of Muslims are Pasmanda Muslims. They are native converts from Shudra, Dalit, and Adivasi social backgrounds. Most of them are highly marginalized and work as artisans, peasants, and the informal labor force. (1/n)
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"A Political Party does not exist merely for the sake of winning election. A Political party exists for the sake of educating, agitating and organising the people."
--Babasaheb Ambedkar
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Make SC category religious neutral on the lines of OBC and ST category. Scrap EWS quota.
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Indian "left-liberals" are neither left nor liberals. They are like a privileged, pan-religious, interest-based kinship structure with immense contempt for ordinary people, marginalized communities, and their cultures.
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The
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hawkers are hardworking and pauperised lower class/caste sections from eastern UP and Bihar trying to make ends meet. Take pride in Tamil. Fight Hindi imposition. Take on Delhi, not its victims.
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Dr. Radhakrishnan was a mediocre philosopher with an academic career blemished with charges of plagiarism (links👇). Teacher's Day should be celebrated on 3 January to mark the birth anniversary of the most illustrious teacher of India, Savitribai Phule.
#TeachersDay2021
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Mr. Kharge is a grounded politician. I compliment Mr. Tharoor for probably becoming the first Indian politician to have tweeted a Foucault quote. Clear evidence that Congress made a better choice.
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My piece in the Indian Express today. Please have a look whenever you have a moment. Thanks
@surajyengde
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There is no connection of meat with COVID-19. Yet, the UP government has banned sale of non-vegetarian food items thereby violating the dietary preferences of a large section of population and pauperizing those involved in the meat industry. Absolutely arbitrary move!
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My provisional computation of caste-aggregated data for Muslims in Bihar based on the summary pages of the Caste-Based Survey Report shared by friends. I will attempt a more precise calculation when the full report is accessible.
Total Muslim Population: 17.4%
Forward Caste…
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Manual scavengers across religions face the same social disabilities. Yet, while the Hindu/Sikh/Buddhist among them get the benefits of SC quota, the Muslims and Christians don't. Why?
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Remembering Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) on her birthday today. She was a scholar extraordinaire, an organic intellectual in the truest sense of the word. You opened my world, Maam. Truly indebted!
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Marx, Ambedkar, Gandhi, and Periyar were inconsistent and evolved till their last breath. But their blind followers will never grow to appreciate this. A fundamental unity runs through all those who sincerely work for human uplift, despite their significant disagreements.
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“I thought it was better to contact Muslims through their leadership. Meeting about 50 Muslim leaders astonished me to witness their Brahmanism. +
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Anand Ranganathan is to Islam what Zakir Naik is to Hinduism: interlocutors offering literal, de-contextualized, and unified images of faiths. Faiths have as many shades as human beings; they can be couched in a language of power or compassion. Both deliberately erase the latter.
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"Caste is the most overwhelming factor in Indian life. Those who deny it in principle accept it in practice... cultured men speak in soft tones against the system of caste, while its rejection in action just does not occur to them."
--Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia
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Phoolan Devi, a towering Bahujan icon of resistance. Martyred 25 July 2001.
#PhoolanDeviBahujanMartyr
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Dr. Rammanohar Lohia: "The Indian people are the saddest on earth...I am convinced that two segregations of caste and woman are primarily responsible for this decline of the spirit. These segregations have enough power to kill all capacity for adventure and joy. +
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**I am not your data**
Abhay Flavian Xaxa (Rest in power dear brother)
I am not your data, nor am I your vote bank,
I am not your project, or any exotic museum object,
I am not the soul waiting to be harvested,
Nor am I the lab where your theories are tested, 1/n
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The release of the caste-based survey report by the Bihar government is a historic achievement. Hopefully, it will catalyze another spiral of social justice politics, which learns from past mistakes and takes the questions of Bahujan cultural-ideological diversity and internal…
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The former chairman of Shia Waqf Board, Waseem Rizvi, has converted to Hinduism and renamed Harbeer Narayan Singh Tyagi. An instance of a smooth relocation of a "Syed" in Islam to "Brahmin" in Hinduism. The jury is still out if it is "ghar wapsi" or "ghar badli."
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"To a slave his master may be better or worse. But there cannot be a good master. A good man cannot be a master and a master cannot be a good man."
--Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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"Religion is for man and not man for religion"
--Babasaheb Ambedkar
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Inter-faith and inter-caste intimacy should be considered the deepest form of rebellion in a deeply supremacist, orthodox, divided, violent, joyless caste society. Lovers offer transcendence and hope; they are revolutionaries par excellence.
#love
#lovejihaad
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Nagaraju was willing to convert to Islam. But the Syed family did not accept him because he was a Dalit. The spectacular mode of murder was intended as a warning to all such future unions. It is caste at play here, not religion.
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I gauge the efficacy of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb by the number of "Happy Muharram" messages I get.
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“You can change your religion, you can change your economic status but unfortunately your caste follows you.”
-Kanimozhi, DMK
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कल जो रोहित सरदाना जैसे ज़हरीले पत्रकार की मौत पर तंज कस रहे थे, आज शहाबुद्दीन जैसे माफिया और गुंडे को विनम्र श्रद्धांजलि दे रहे हैं. यही है तुम्हारे सामाजिक न्याय की असलियत!
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"Muslims produced a Sir Syed. Sir Syed’s main thrust was for zamindars and the children of zamindars. Ambedkar worked for the poorest of the poor. I say Muslims now need to produce an Ambedkar."
--Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer (2011)
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Ankit, a Dalit and tractor driver, was murdered for his relationship with a Muslim girl from an affluent family in Basti (UP) on 26 August. The girl allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison. "Honor" associated with caste/religion/class is destroying young lives.
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#PurniaDalitsWantsJustice
My sources tell me that it was a concerted attack by high caste Surjapuri-Sheikh Muslims on the roadside settlement inhabited by the Dom (Dalit) caste. Local Surjapuri propertied classes had their eyes fixed on this piece of land for a long time.
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Nagaraju was willing to convert to Islam. But the Syed family did not accept him because he was a Dalit. The spectacular mode of murder was intended as a warning to all such future unions. It is caste at play here, not religion.
Hyderabad | Nagaraju had told my mother that he will convert to a Muslim (Islam) to marry me but my mother didn’t listen...We had a love marriage...: Ashrin Sulthana, deceased's wife
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The sociologist Vir Das and historian Kangana Ranaut (via Prakash K. Ray)
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We are confronting a profound crisis of thought. Most Marxists, Gandhians, Ambedkarites, Lohiaites, etc., are poorly read in their own traditions and maintain their camp purity through rhetorical strategies. There is often a reluctance to learn from others.+
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"A Political Party does not exist merely for the sake of winning election. A Political party exists for the sake of educating, agitating and organising the people."
--Babasaheb Ambedkar
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The point where the two Indias intersect!
Controlling my words. I want to see this man
@thevirdas
, behind the bars & rotting at any cost possible.
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Never forget our Pasmanda sister. Dr. Payal Tadvi was an Adivasi-Muslim from the Bhil tribe.
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"I prefer walking in the street and thinking about God to standing in the mosque and worrying about my shoes.”
--Ali Shariati, Iranian revolutionary
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Happy Teachers Day! Today is the 190th birth anniversary of the most illustrious teacher of the Indian subcontinent, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule.
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डर बड़ी चीज़ है. यादवों का डर. मुसलमानों का डर. आरक्षण का डर. विषेशाधिकारों के खोने का डर. प्रेम का डर. रक्त की शुद्धता खोने का डर. डरा हुआ व्यक्ति भीड़ में आश्वासन खोजता है. भीड़ हिंसा कर सकती है, सृजन नहीं. राजनीतिक चरवाहों ने जो रूहानी नुकसान किया है उस की भरपाई मे समय लगेगा.
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Remembering Maulana Asim Bihari and Babasaheb Ambedkar on their death anniversary. Both emphasized the value of education, organization and agitation and set an example through their own conduct. Revolutionary salutes to the two great Pasmanda-Bahujan teachers!
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One must challenge PM Modi's politics fiercely if one disagrees with it. But to deride him for his spoken English skills or unfamiliarity with white culinary or diplomatic protocols is downright classist and vulgar. The joke is not on him but on you.
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Interesting that caste is mentioned in official documents in Pakistan.
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That is what institutionalized Buddhism looks like!
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Glad to receive this copy of AoC published by Other Books. Very fine composing and printing quality. Thank you,
@Shikastha
💙
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BSP with a vote share of 13 percent bags 1 seat and Congress with a vote share of 2 percent bags 2 seats. First-Past-The-Post electoral system is convoluted. Replace it with some form of Proportional Electoral System.
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Babasaheb Ambedkar: "To a slave, his master may be better or worse. But there cannot be a good master. A good man cannot be a master, and a master cannot be a good man."
That is the basic premise. A society without masters and slaves.+
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"Liberté, égalité, fraternité"
Jai Bhim, Jai Pasmanda!
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"My appeal to the students is that after completing education instead of becoming a petty clerk they should serve their village and nearby people so that exploitation and injustice arising out of ignorance may be ended. Your rise is included in the rise of society."
-Babasaheb
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Azim Premji University invites applications for the first round of admissions for UG and PG programs for 2023. The last date to apply for Round 1 is 24th November; the national entrance test is on 24th December. Details 👇 Please share widely.
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Educate Muslim girls, and they may drop the
#hijab
themselves or offer informed reasons to continue with the practice if they so choose. Cultural differences must not be pounced upon to ruin careers and satiate majoritarian fantasies. Don't put the cart before the horse.
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If your monthly income is more than ₹25,000, then you are in India's top 10% income bracket. If the monthly income is more than ₹65,000, you are in the top 5%.
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Happy Teachers Day! Today is the 193rd birth anniversary of one of the most illustrious teachers of the Indian subcontinent, Savitribai Phule.
#HappyTeachersDay
#SavitriBaiPhuleJayanti
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✔️Reservation for 10 years was mooted for the legislative bodies, not for employment or education.
✔️Reservation≠poverty alleviation program; Reservation=representation
✔️General seats≠upper caste seats.
Recite it 100 times daily after surya namaskar, fajr namaaz, etc.
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Glad to share that I will be speaking on "Caste Census and the Muslim Question" as part of a panel at the Two Day Conference (5-6 February) on "Counting Caste: Breaking the Caste Census Deadlock" organized by the University of Oxford. Please join if the theme interests you.
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G. Aloysius gets the first Iyothee Thass Award of the Tamil Nadu government. Aloysius, a radical anti-caste scholar, is the author of the magnificent monograph "Nationalism without a Nation in India" (OUP 1997) and the founder of the Critical Quest Publications. Well deserved!
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In 1951, Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, reverentially washed the feet of 201 Brahmins in Varanasi. The more things change, the more they remain the same. [Filmindia cartoon (1952)]
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Baba Kabir is a nemesis for all fanatics. No Bahujan-Pasmanda renaissance can be imagined without him.
When Sultan Sikandar Lodi came to Banaras, a delegation of both Hindus and Muslims complained to him about Baba Kabir's activities thus:
"He (Kabir) has abandoned the customs…
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Babasaheb Ambedkar:
"To a critic who is a hostile and malicious person and who wants to make capital out of my inconsistencies my reply is straight. Emerson has said that consistency is the virtue of an ass and I don’t wish to make an ass of myself. +
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The uncritical love of Indian Muslims displayed by many left-liberals is no less problematic than the poison spewed by Hindu Right. Both turn Muslims into an exceptional community. Muslims are made of flesh and bones with the same potential for good and evil like others.
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"I am not an original thinker, I am a professor.": JNU VC
This could be the most interesting instance of a Freudian slip in India's history of higher education😂
(Link below)
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The Bahujans have become political orphans. The elite capture of their political parties, movements, and intelligentsia is almost total. But I am hopeful that a new wave of social justice politics will emerge soon.
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Remembering Phoolan Devi, a towering bahujan icon of resistance. Martyred 25 July 2001.
#PhoolanDevi
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Brilliant, much-needed corrective by
@tishasaroyan
to the popular, toxic historical narratives influenced by orientalist-colonial Hindu-Muslim lens. Keep up the good work!
This historian is busting fake-history narratives with eyeshadow and evidence via…
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🔳 "Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organization"
🔳 “In politics, bhakti is a sure road to degradation and eventually dictatorship"
🔳 “I am no worshipper of idols, I believe in breaking them"
Happy birthday, Babasaheb!
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Among Muslims, Ashraf: Pasmanda population ratio is 15%: 85%. In AMU faculty, the representation of Ashraf Muslims is 88.35% & that of OBC-Muslims is 4.81%. An almost inverted representation!
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Remembering Manyavar Kanshi Ram on his 15th death anniversary. This is what he said about Muslims:
“I thought it was better to contact Muslims through their leadership. After meeting about 50 Muslim leaders I was astonished to witness their Brahmanism. +
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Mallikarjun Kharge should be the obvious choice for the Congress party. He brings the necessary experience and gravity to complement Rahul Gandhi's youthful adventurism. The objective must be revamping the party machinery, not winning an Oxford Union debate.
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'Music has no caste'
Happy birthday Ustad Bismillah Khan (21 March 1916– 21 August 2006)
A Pasmanda brother belonging to the 'halalkhor' (sweeper) caste who mesmerised the world with his shehnai and gave a glimpse of how music dissolves all boundaries.
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Neo-Buddhist supremacism is as offensive as any other form of religious/ideological supremacism.
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"Abrahamic/Indic" is a quintessentially orientalist-colonial construction that erases the complex exchanges of knowledge, faith and culture across centuries in South Asia. Is Biryani Abrahamic and Curd Rice Indic? Guru Nanak was born in present-day Pakistan and Buddha in Nepal.…
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Ashrin is the real "sherni" who fought till the end to save her love. Ashrin and Nagaraju committed no crime. It is the thought and people that lynched Nagaraju who are the criminals. In a city inhabited by the blind, having eyesight is a crime.
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My piece on the emergence of Mr. Owaisi and AIMIM...
Owaisi Represents Only The Elitist Section, And Not The Entire Muslim Community
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"Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organization"
“In politics, bhakti is a sure road to degradation and eventually dictatorship"
“I am no worshipper of idols, I believe in breaking them"
Happy birthday,
#BabaSaheb
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Conversion as a precondition to solemnize interfaith marriages is a violation of the dignity of partner. Say no to such conversions, press for reform of archaic laws.
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Sad to learn that Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad is no more with us.
Prof. Ahmad was a pioneering sociologist that set the terms of the debate on the sociology of Indian Muslims by bringing in a more empirical focus from the 1970s onward. He was mainly known for opening up the Muslim caste…
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The 1946 elections were based on a "separate" and "restricted" electorate. The Muslim League won handsomely from the Muslim seats, thereby paving the way for Pakistan. But the restricted franchise ensured that only 10-13% of Muslims, based on income & education, could vote.+
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"Ansari" surname was adopted by Muslim 'julahas' (weavers) from late nineteenth century onward (ashrafization). Before that it was employed exclusively by high-caste "sheikhs" (eg. the ex-VP Hamid Ansari). The latter were furious with julaha encroachments on ansari category.
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