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Narendra Modi looks set to win a third term in power. One of his strategies for success is to exploit the country’s religious differences.
Urbanisation in India is causing Adivasi communities to lose connections to ancestral lands – and to traditional knowledge and belief systems. Urban Hinduisation plays a big role in this.
I come from a Dalit background and I research Dalit representation in film. So I know first hand Origin’s importance to Dalit people.
The controversial reality show is only part of the picture when it comes to class and education in Indian marriage negotiations.
Preliminary research finds that India’s high growth rate has failed to trickle down to society’s marginalised communities, with caste, gender and background still dictating life chances.
New laws making religious conversion more difficult aim to mobilise sentiment against Muslims, women and social mobility for lower castes.
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