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    my connection Evidence from Text - Quotations or close references to the text ‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard Poem Agard is half African and half Guyanese - as people call him ‘Half-Caste’ he challenges them to see him as a ‘whole’ person instead of calling him half-caste. People get really ignorant about what they call someone, they don’t know that it can be offensive. “Excuse me/ Standing on one leg/ I’m half-caste…”…

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    Caste based discrimination is an often denied social reality of higher education campuses in India. The blindness to caste exists not only in conversations amongst students and faculty but also exists in academic curriculum and the administration of a University. Throughout my studies in law and some part of social work education, I too grew up being blind to cast. While some of the blindness was deliberate, most of it was unconsciously convenient. Such blindness has even manifested itself in…

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    Rights and Caste Discrimination “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” - Article 1 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights We have a multilingual and multicultural society. The idea of unity in diversity prevails in India but with this diversity arise many issues. Casteism is one of the problems that India has been facing for centuries now. Millions of Indians are still denied a life with dignity and equality just because of their caste. An individual’s caste with…

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    The caste system is a structure in which people are classified by birth. People are classified according to their occupation or how wealthy and powerful they are in the society. The caste system contains four levels or categories, which are the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and lastly the Shudras. Being placed as the highest category, the Brahmins were mainly made up of priests, while the Kshatriyas, which were the second highest category, were made up of chieftains and their warriors. Next,…

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    How did the Indian Caste system differ from the organization of Chinese society? Both China and India used systems that divided people into classes, they both differed however. In the caste system, a person’s caste is hereditary, with attaining a higher caste being almost impossible within a lifetime. The caste system is also very expansive, containing over “300 jati (or livings), which became further divided into a multitude of subcastes” (56). On the other hand, China’s class system was not…

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    Originally, Caste system classified into four levels: Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, and Shdras. Brahmans symbolized the highest status of priests. Kshatriyas was the status of warriors. Vaisyas expressed merchants and commoners. Shdras indicated peasants, and laborers (Jordan, 2014). The four levels of caste system first came out from the composition of the Rig Veda in around 1000 B.C.E. The system were developed by Aryas who expanded to India and reject the original structures of Vedic…

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    The Caste system has been through a lot of transformations, based on many beliefs and disbeliefs. As it possibly, “… has been through extinction for over one hundred years.” and then has been rebuilt- once it has been “...declared moribund.” (Jonah Blank, 114) There are many conceptions on what possibly changed, or remained the same. Based on what occurred in the past, and what has now been “changed” to have caused many differences in belief- causing some people to strongly believe in the caste…

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    Caster Semenya, winner of the gold medal in the 800m run at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, is a real-life Wonder Woman; except for the fact that many competitors, spectators, and experts accused her of being a man at the 2009 International Association of Athletics Federation World Championships. Her “strikingly muscular physique”(McLean), deep voice, and “the way she runs” (McLean) were the causes for concern and they all tie into how society compartmentalizes people by their sex, gender,…

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    Vishal Nath Indian Art and Architecture, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Interconnectedness between Lotus, Pillar, Tree and Serpent in early Indian…

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    The post-Independence, postcolonial narratives work out the constructs of the nation and analyze its text The dis¬courses or narratives written then and later address the issues of the 'new' nation-mapping of territorial spaces, the re¬grouping of communities, peoples, cultures, languages into a homogenous identity of being Indian and belonging to India. Within this text of national identity runs the sub-text of centrality and marginality. The schemes of the nation include or exclude people,…

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