Electoral Power and the Future of Dalit Politics
Since February, a group of mostly lifelong BJP voters from the Brahmin community has been meeting in Lucknow to plan ...
What a State Is Made to Hold: The Unfinished Case for Reservation in the Private Sector
"The purpose of a system is what it does," Stafford Beer once said: not what its charter claims, not what ...
Changing Fans Won’t Stop Casteism: Institutional Murder of Sahil Wakode at IIT Bombay
There is a persistent, naive belief in India that premier engineering institutes are pristine spaces of pure meritocracy, immune to ...
Jason Arday, Merit and the Violence of Belonging
Jason Arday was a sociologist, a teacher, a writer, a son, a partner, a father, a brother and a man ...
The Savarna Need to Talk About Reservation
Say what you will about the CJP protests against the NEET paper leak, everyone has already said that the immediate ...
India Continues Displacement of Tribals
The demolition of homes belonging to Adivasi tea-tribe families in Hatikhuli Bagicha near Kaziranga marks the latest escalation in a ...
Ken-Betwa and the State’s Assault on Collective Rights
The protests against the Ken-Betwa Link Project in Madhya Pradesh emerged from long-standing concerns about the displacement of affected communities ...
When Bengal’s Voter Rolls Become Deportation Lists
A report by Human Rights Watch has accused Indian authorities of forcibly expelling ethnic Bengali residents—predominantly Muslims—from West Bengal into ...
Thirty Atrocity Cases, One Larger Question: What India’s Caste Violence Data Still Doesn’t Capture
A complaint submitted to the National Commission for Scheduled Castats (NCSC) has brought together 30 reported cases of violence against ...
Why the Demand to Delist Christian Adivasis Matters
The demand to remove Christian Adivasis from the Scheduled Tribe list has moved from the margins of Hindutva advocacy toward ...
The Politics of the Historically Oppressed Communities and Emerging Transformations in Kerala
Introduction The recent election campaigns and electoral outcomes in Kerala reveal an important shift in the political economy of the ...
Everything and Nothing All At Once: New Post-Ideological Shifts in Tamil Nadu
You are most likely to understand Vijay’s Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) if you have had a friend who is a ...
Buddhist, Dalit, Constitutionalist, Hindu Nationalist?
The first Buddhist—and only the second Dalit—to serve as Chief Justice of India, B. R. Gavai held office from 14 ...
West Bengal’s Electoral Roll Purge and the Architecture of Disenfranchisement
In the run-up to polling, West Bengal isn’t just approaching an election. It is also seeing a redrawing of who ...
A Deep-rooted Post-Independence Conspiracy to Keep Oppressed Castes Oppressed: Anti-Conversion Laws Across Indian States
On 13 March 2026, the Freedom of Religion Bill was tabled in the Maharashtra State Assembly — the eleventh state ...
Judiciary of Caste: Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Constitutional Protection to Dalits Across Religions
On 24 March 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment that appears, at first glance, to simply restate ...
India’s 2026 Trans Amendment Rewrites Rights as State Control
On March 25, 2026, the Rajya Sabha cleared the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, completing its swift ...
Custody, Caste, and the Persistence of Police Violence in Tamil Nadu
The death of 26-year-old Dalit youth Akash Denison in police custody in Sivaganga district has once again forced Tamil Nadu ...
Bihar’s Caste Alliances at a Turning Point
Nitish Kumar has filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha, a move that effectively ends his nearly two-decade-long tenure as ...
Beyond Misclassification: Why Denotified Tribes Need a Separate Constitutional Schedule
In 2027, India will undertake a caste enumeration for the first time since 1931. For Denotified, Nomadic, and Semi Nomadic ...
Erasing Recognition: Maharashtra’s Ideological Withdrawal of the 5 Percent Muslim Quota
The Maharashtra government’s formal cancellation of the 5 percent reservation for socially and educationally backward Muslims has reopened a constitutional ...
Breaking the Silence on Caste in Universities: A Critical Reading of the UGC 2026 Regulations and the Karnataka Rohith Vemula Bill
In January 2026, the University Grants Commission released its new regulations aimed at creating a more inclusive academic environment and ...
Durban’s Afterlives: Still Haunted by the Absence of Dalit Human Rights
Twenty-five years after the Durban World Conference Against Racism (2001), Dalit human rights defenders and allied movements across India convened ...
No Liberation Alone: The Call for Dalit-Muslim Solidarity
Over the last few years, the relationship between Dalit and Muslim identities has opened in ways that are both politically ...