While Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League were campaigning for partition, the Momins of Bihar opposed the idea of Pakistan, arguing that it was a creation of the same upper caste Muslims who were their oppressors.
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Who is the General Category reserved for?
There is a constant debate about reservations in upper caste circles. People keep talking about if they work, when they will be stopped, etc.
But the framing of reservations as something that the “casteless” majority give to those who suffered because of their caste hides the truth.
How Tam-Brams went from being scared of Coffee to owning it
When the use of coffee first spread across India under British rule, many Tamil Brahmins strongly opposed it. But by the time India became independent, they had wholeheartedly embraced coffee, infused it with their own characteristics, and had begun to wield it as a marker of their social superiority.
Sati was abolished to protect religious tradition, not women
In the early decades of the 19th century, British India witnessed a heated debate over the question of whether the practice of sati should be legally permitted. The debate had little to do with modern concepts such as human rights. Its real point was discovering and restoring “true Hindu tradition.”