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📰 Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh (A free, 12-page article from 2020)

Tags: #ModernIndian #Buddhastatue #Caste #Navayana
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/thathagata-buddha-songs_kalyani-kalyani

Thathagata Buddha Songs: Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh

Tathagata Buddha songs, which this paper studies, has been specifically enabling for Dalit women as it gives them not only a sense of religiosity but it also opens them to the possibility of rationalizing their beliefs and practices. The paper will bring up an ethnographic account of some of these Dalit women singers and look into some of their composition and songs that have a specific invocation to Gautam Buddha and of political icons like Babasaheb Ambedkar, whom they revere.

The Open Buddhist University

Karthikeyan A K

5d ago

I wonder what's the difference between the white man thinking that he can bomb civilizations to subjugation, because they are less of a human, and we Indians segregating people by caste, class and religion?

He has the means to kill, subjugate, and get away. Castes, class & religious groups here don't have that capability right now.

#USA #Iran #War #Israel #India #Caste #Religion

Mike_V 6d ago

Caste, capitalism, and urban governance form a triangulated system:
“Caste supplies the moral logic, capitalism rewards its outcomes, and planning institutions manage the interface between the two—often in the language of care, balance, and pragmatism.”
#capitalism #caste #urbanism

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2026/03/16/caste-cities-and-the-hidden-architecture-of-inequality/

Caste, Cities, and the Hidden Architecture of Inequality - Spacing Vancouver

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather than treating racism as a matter of prejudice or individual belief, Wilkerson asks us to see it as something deeper and more durable: a caste system—an underlying social architecture that assigns worth, belonging,Continue reading "Caste, Cities, and the Hidden Architecture of Inequality"

Spacing Vancouver

Italian News by RSS 6d ago

La Stampa - News, inchieste e approfondimenti La Stampa: La Giustizia e il voto oltre gli slogan

A favore della Casta. Contro la Casta. Per una magistratura più autonoma e indipendente. Per evitare che la magistratura perda autonomia e indipendenza. Scorrendo gli slogan della ...

Justice and the vote beyond slogans

In favor of the Caste. Against the Caste. For a more autonomous and independent judiciary. To prevent the judiciary from losing autonomy and independence. Scrolling through the slogans of...

#Justice #Caste

https://www.lastampa.it/editoriali/lettere-e-idee/2026/03/17/news/il_si_e_il_no_oltre_gli_slogan-15547466/

La Giustizia e il voto oltre gli slogan

La Stampa

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Mar 15

That's what #mantras are for. The point of a mantra is only #focus. There is at least one #Vedic story I will not look up where a poor person, a low #caste, came to a #brahmin and inquired how they could achieve self-realization. The brahmin mocked them by giving a fake mantra, meaningless, ...

Ohsin Mar 12

'The Making of Caste: 1000 BCE to 1000 CE' by Tony Joseph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJI5fZhQr7I
#Caste #Casteism #Brahminism #India

The Making of Caste: 1000 BCE to 1000 CE | Tony Joseph

YouTube

Groundxero Mar 8

Despite their occasional reformative approach, the judiciary is ultimately the machinery of a patriarchal, casteist State, and hence, by nature patriarchal and casteist – so is the bureaucracy attached to it.

#patriarchy #surname #caste

https://www.groundxero.in/2026/03/06/will-the-roses-rebel/

» Will the Roses Rebel? Gender, Law, and Politics of Naming

RB Leipzig 🤖Mar 6

Die @F1 startet wieder - und #Baka und #Casté sind schon im Rennmodus 😁🏁

@[email protected] @redbullracing

TinDrum Mar 5

US politics just makes my head spin: this person's a Dem candidate

'Public filings on her own personal political giving reveal years of support for far-right Republicans. The list of those who have received her cash include MAGA candidates, the Republican head of the evangelical Zionist group Christians United for Israel, anti-abortion candidates, and even far-right pundit Laura Loomer, according to disclosures reviewed by The Intercept'

#wtf #usPol #makeItMakeSense #caste #hinduNationalism

https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/california-eric-swalwell-rakhi-israni-donations-maga-gop/

Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans — Including Laura Loomer

Democratic primary hopeful Rakhi Israni, who is running for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat, gave to MAGA figures — including Laura Loomer.

The Intercept

Acharya Prashant Feb 17

Why Every Caste Debate Misses the Real Question

"When a social arrangement is given the name of religion, it becomes nearly impossible to dismantle. You can legislate against it, protest against it, write constitutions that explicitly forbid it, and it will survive, because people will obey the law in the open and worship the belief in private.

https://sundayguardianlive.com/feature/every-caste-debate-misses-the-real-question-170460/

#Caste #India #MastIndia

Every Caste Debate Misses the Real Question

The false marriage of religion and caste still haunts India.

The Sunday Guardian