What YS Sharmila's leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes In some respects, YS Sharmila’s upcoming political party is the first of its kind in south India. IMAGE: YS SHARMILA REDDY Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd In south India so far, a woman leader has not started a major party on her own and influenced the … Continue reading What YS Sharmila’s leadership could mean for Telangana: Kancha Ilaiah writes | The News Minute

KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD A new way to fight Dwija hegemony  Rakesh Tikait holding The Shudras—Vision for a New Path book with his two hands at his heart shows a new shift in the Indian and more particularly in the North Indian agrarian caste sociopolitical consciousness.North Indian Shudras more particularly the Jats, Gujjars, Patels became the backbone of … Continue reading The Shudras at the Heart of Tikait

in Annihilate Caste — by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd A well-known Dalit scholar Gopal Guru, presently editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, once wrote that “Indian Social Science represents a pernicious divide between theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras’ (2002). But Shudras did not get much attention in his, otherwise useful article. He immediately shifted his argument to the question of … Continue reading Shudras And The Central Universities

Review G. Sampath This anthology brings the spotlight on challenges facing a people who form not only the majority of India’s population but also the majority among Hindus The term ‘Other Backward Classes’, or OBCs, is an administrative category. It is typically deployed in the context of public policy and academic research. Is it advisable … Continue reading G. Sampath reviews The Shudras: Vision for a New Path, edited by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd & Karthik Raja Karuppasamy – The Hindu