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Can cricket be a nuisance? How a judge’s review greenlighted the game
No full textThis is about a case in a domain of law that is close to the people, to their everyday problems – tort law. Tort law is concerned with issues many face in their daily lives. One person starts a noisy eatery close to a doctor’s practice. Another person drives his car carelessly down a one-way street. The first case is a nuisance, the second one is negligence. The law grows organically while dealing with these problems. It’s almost incongruent to call it the law, which denotes something artificial. It’s law as common sense
Caste, Incivility, and the Prospects of Civil Repair
No full textThe chapter basically argues that, despite backlashes at every stage in their claims to equality and social justice, Dalits and Dalit movements are continuously engaged in civil repair efforts. The Dalits have currently extended their struggles taking it forward to critiquing dominant cultural texts and creating new cultural understandings as efforts to remake the social and as an ongoing process of civil repair towards the creation of a more open and democratic society
Empire, Nation, and the Question of Space
No full textThe chapter resituates the ideas of empire and nation in relation to the category of space. It delineates the centrality of the concept of space for understanding the imperial and contemporary world-system and the development of colonial capitalist modernity. Drawing on theorists that include but are not limited to Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon, Henri Lefebvre, Nikos Poulantzas, Raymond Williams, and Edward Said, the chapter seeks to understand how their works engage with space as a critical concept, and how their theorizations deploy the category of space to illuminate the production of new kinds – and conceptions – of space in colonial capitalist modernity: the metropole and the colony; notions of the core, periphery, and the semiperiphery; and the modern world-system as a concatenation of spaces – that is, a set of contiguous and nominally equal nation-states separated out from each other through the novel spatial form of the border. The chapter also examines theorizations of the nation to underline it as an ideology of space
Why no one is talking about counting caste in Kerala
No full textThe two major political fronts have remained ambivalent about the caste census. This reflects not only fears about electoral arithmetic, but also deeper apprehensions that it could disrupt the state’s carefully maintained political stability and expose foundational socio-economic fault lines
Tamil Nadu\u27s Journey From Social Justice Towards \u27(Dis)Honour Killings\u27
No full textTamil Nadu has a proud history of politics committed to social justice. Failure to act decisively against the scourge of caste-violence and so-called honour-killings, contributes to the perception that egalitarian commitments have been sacrificed at the altar of electoral politic
Audrey Truschke puts people at the centre of India’s 5,000-year story
No full textA review of the historian Audrey Truschke’s fourth book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent. The book is a history of the subcontinent built from the stories of traders, nuns, slaves, and scholars
What the Scopes trial teaches us
No full textThe Scopes Trial brought a media circus to the town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held
