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About Thoothukudi and Other Custodial Police Violence During Lockdown: Part 5

A documentation of the custodial deaths during lockdown that also looks for the answer to some such questions around the class nature, caste nature and religious nature of such deaths. This is the fifth and last part of the Groundxero report.   The Thoothukudi murders have once again drawn our attention to custodial and other forms […]


Understanding the History of Caste in India through Irfan Habib‘s Work

In a 2-part essay, Zeeshan Husain looks at the interplays of castes and gender from AD 600-1750, focusing on historian Irfan Habib’s Medieval India: The Study of a Civilisation (2007). Habib divides this period into three parts — early medieval India (AD 600–1200), India under the Sultanates (AD 1200–1500), and Mughal India (AD 1500–1750) — and […]