The practice of human untouchability, anti-dignity of labour and women’s inequality have deep roots in Sanatana Dharma. Yet, the BJP wants Sanatana Dharma as th
Political theorist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd responds to Prime Minister’s Chief Economic Advisor Bibek Debroy’s article titled, “There’s a case for ‘we the people’ to embrace a new Constitution.”
The RSS/BJP intellectuals tell us today that texts like Ramcharitmanas are mirrors of our civilisation. Then where do the Shudras, Dalits, Adivasis and women exist, except for occasional humiliation?
Since caste was around before Islam arrived, how did Muslim clerics, scholars and rulers view it? After Islam came to India, the only writer who discussed the caste question was Alberuni in the 11th century