Kancha Ilaiah’s The Shudra Rebellion rewrites history from below, where spades built cities and obedience was not a choice. CYNTHIA STEPHEN A depiction of a Channar couple from the illustrated manuscript Seventy-two Specimens of Castes in India (1837). | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In The Shudra Rebellion, the political theorist and Dalit rights activist Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd attempts what few historians … Continue reading What if the real builders of Indian civilisation never got to write the story?
Caste Census: Who Wins When We Count Caste? Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Caste census a huge step against RSS tradition; will Sangh agree to it?
Kancha llaiah Shepherd Caste is a mystical psychological category. It makes people crazy when entitlements are assigned on the basis of its oppressive history. It makes a progressive a reactionary when the oppressed caste's shade reaches the comfort zone of the oppressor castes | Representative image: iStock While Rahul Gandhi went against the understanding of … Continue reading Caste census a huge step against RSS tradition; will Sangh agree to it?
Why shouldn’t English be India’s single national language?
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd This article is based on excerpts from a talk by Prof. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd at the first KP Sasi Webinar on Politics of Language and Language of Politics held on 15 April 2025. In the video his speech is from 36.21 to 50.44 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/embed/fiuuFI9fANM?start=138&feature=oembed At the outset, I pay tribute to KP … Continue reading Why shouldn’t English be India’s single national language?
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