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Dalits

Beware the Silent Voters

Badri Narayan

They could decide the winners in Haryana

A Worn-Out Old LP

Rahul Gandhi seems to be stuck on a caste survey without which, he suggests, the hitherto weaker castes cannot be expected to make any progress

A New Deal for Dalits

Towards a fairer reservation model

The Ambedkar Dividend

Congress and its allies benefited from making the Constitution a political symbol

The Karpoori Thakur Effect

Why Bihar’s icon deserves the Bharat Ratna

Peripheral Vision

A photographer looks at dalit lives through the lens of intimacy and isolation

Who’s Afraid of Sundar Iyer?

The Hindu coalitions of America lead caste reforms

Meat for Thought

A dispute in IIT Bombay reopens the debate over exclusive spaces for vegetarians

Saluting the Foot Soldiers

The freedom movement’s nameless legion

‘Inside big tech, privileged caste members use filters to keep others out of jobs, promotions’

Marilyn Fernandez, professor emerita in the Sociology department at Santa Clara University, California, in conversation with the author

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