ROCKPORT Professor Sonja Thomas will deliver a presentation about the caste system in India on Wednesday, February 7, at 6 p.m., at the Rockport Public Library. This event is free and open to all. Have you heard of caste but never really.
By the time the Portuguese arrived in India in the fifteenth century, the earliest group of Christians in India had already been exposed to thirteen centuries of Indian religious traditions, which were bound to be absorbed by them.
ROCKPORT The West has talked about India's caste system since the days or the British Raj, but it remains mostly a mystery outside of India. What is caste? Is it based on occupation, color, religion, race – or all those factors? And are there.
AUGUSTA Sonja Thomas plans to present “Caste: A Crash Course” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Community Meeting Room at Lithgow Public Library on 45 Winthrop St. This 40-minute primer on caste aims to teach about terms, caste discrimination in South Asia and in the U.S., and activism to end caste […]
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