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Pariyerum Perumal and a Periyarite Note on Political Engagement Pariyerum Perumal与政治参与的Periyarite注记

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.355

Antony Arul Valan

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Dalits and the Making of Modern India 贱民与现代印度的形成

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.390

Gaurav J. Pathania

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Memory, Grief, and Agency: A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites 记忆、悲伤与代理:对错误与仪式的政治神学解释

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.376

Helen Chukka

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Conceptions of Community, Nation and Politics: The Ezhavas of South Malabar, India and their Quest for Equality 社区、国家和政治的概念：印度南马拉巴尔的埃扎瓦人及其对平等的追求

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.357

A. K.

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The Dominant Post-constitutional Indian Feminist Discourse: A Critique of its Intersectional Reading of Caste and Gender 主导的后宪法印度女权主义话语:对种姓和性别的交叉解读的批判

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.364

Santvana Kumar, Ekata Bakshi

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Periyar’s Spatial Thought: Region as Non-Brahmin Discursive Space 佩里亚尔的空间思想：作为非婆罗门话语空间的区域

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.358

G. .

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“When I tell them my caste, silence descends”: Caste-based Discrimination among the Nepali Diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA “当我告诉他们我的种姓，沉默就会降临”:美国旧金山湾区尼泊尔侨民的种姓歧视

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.320

Prem Pariyar, Bikash Gupta, R. Fonseka

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Maadathy-An Unfairy Tale: Caste, Space, and Gaze Maadathy一个不公平的故事：种姓、空间和凝视

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.365

S. Eswaran

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Barishaler Jogen Mandal: Construal of the Undisputed Dalit Leader of Undivided Bengal through a Twenty-first Century Bengali Novel Barishaler Jogen Mandal：从21世纪孟加拉小说看无争议孟加拉贱民领袖的建构

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.361

S. Roy

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Struggling for Freedom from Caste in Colonial India: The Story of Rettaimalai Srinivasan 在殖民地印度为摆脱种姓制度而斗争:Rettaimalai Srinivasan的故事

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v3i1.352

Malarvizhi Jayanth

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