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Category Archive: Caste

Makarand Paranjape – A Re-Brahminised Brahmin?

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It seems Prof Makarand Paranjape has taken upon himself the task of eliminating the rightist intellectual vacuum of […]

Pratyush Chandra April 13, 2016 Caste, fascism, ideology, India, nationalism

Notes on Rohith Vemula’s Suicide

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1. “It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear, with these immortal words uttered on a […]

Pratyush Chandra February 19, 2016 Caste, Identity, Law, Marx, Marxism, revolutionary ethics, revolutionary politics

Marx, Ambedkar and Indian villages


I used to wonder whether there can be a common explanation for one of the varieties of post-Independence […]

Pratyush Chandra January 10, 2011 Ambedkar, capitalism, Caste, Democracy, India, Marxism

Class Struggle, Development and Revolutionary Politics


1. What happened in China? Isn’t it capitalism that is being nurtured by the ‘Maoist’ party in China? […]

Pratyush Chandra April 20, 2010 Ambedkar, capitalism, Caste, Economy, Identity, Labour, Marxism, Politics

The Meaning of Anti-Casteism


Ambedkar clearly defined the meaning of the struggle against the caste system. For him it was not simply […]

Pratyush Chandra January 16, 2009 Ambedkar, capitalism, Caste, Identity, Labour

Capitalism and Caste


Economist Nirvikar Singh in his latest column in Mint questions the exclusive focus on the rural-urban divide in […]

Pratyush Chandra September 8, 2008 capitalism, Caste, Economy, Identity, India, Labour, Neoliberalism

Untouchability and Indian capitalism


Below is an interesting story published by The Observer. It shows how stratification specific to a society is […]

Pratyush Chandra May 7, 2007 Caste, Economy, Identity, India
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