10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CASTE MARK»
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South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia : Afghanistan, ...
CASTE MARK (BINDl, BOTTU) Burghart, Richard. 1 996. Hierarchical models of
the Hindu social system. In The conditions of listening: Essays on religion, history
and politics in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Cohn, Bernard S.
Peter J. Claus, Sarah Diamond, Margaret Ann Mills, 2003
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Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to ...
Significant and enthralling, these are the cases that forced the courts and the country to reconsider what it means to be black in America, and Mark Weiner demonstrates their lasting importance for our society.
The Vaishnavaites or the followers of Vishnu — one of the Hindu Trinity — are
subdivided into two sects, one sect wearing a caste-mark slightly different from
the other. One sect goes by the name of Vadakalais, meaning thereby those ...
P. V. Jagadisa Ayyar, 1925
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Caste, Class, and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification ...
Whereas among Brahmin women the style of dress proclaims whether one is a
Smartha or a Shri Vaishnava, the same purpose is served among men by the
caste mark. Smartha men apply the vibhuti, which consists of three horizontal
stripes ...
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Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity: Notes on a ...
Only the lower castes, and more so the dalits, bore the burden of the caste mark
— a classic case of an excess of identification. It was an excess perpetrated by
the liberal democratic nation—state when it appropriated the symbolic order of ...
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A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages
Connexion, if any, with TÍLAKA- and *tillaka- is obscure] Pk. fikka- n. 'caste-mark',
fikkida- 'marked with one' ; p. fiki m. pi. 'spot', Sh. fiku m. ; К. fyoku m. 'caste-mark';
S. tiko m. 'mark, stain, caste-mark', tika f. 'stone in a ring', L. tikk f.; L. P. fikkä m.
R. L. Turner, Turner R L, 1999
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Caste and Class in a Southern Town
In any case it is, for the moment, extremely serviceable as a way of fixing on the
Negro an undesirable lower-caste mark and, by inference, justifying white-caste
superiority behavior. Among the defensive beliefs we can refer again to the fear
of ...
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Sufferings of Innocent Souls: Short Stories on Human Rights ...
He knew that Mark was from the Nalavar caste. Mark was a social worker and a
good writer. He had written two books in Tamil on caste system among the Tamils
. “Will it be all right to give the blood of a low caste man to a high caste man?
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Sarojini Naidu's poetry
The moon shines like a caste mark (vermillion) on the brows of night, the winds
like maidens dance and swoon at her holy feet and in the silence the mystic
voices sing and offer incense to God: "A caste-mark on the azure brows of
Heaven The ...
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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism: Tamil ...
It begins: The dispute was whether the temple elephant should wear the
Vadagalay or the Tenkalay caste-mark. We believe our readers know that the
Vadagalays wear on the forehead a caste-mark resembling the shape of the U
and the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CASTE MARK»
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'Converted' Muslims can get backward class benefits: HC
Making the argument that caste mark continues even after conversion, though the degree may be less in Islam, the Madras High Court has ... «The Indian Express, Jun 15»
A backward class Hindu who embraces Islam can continue to claim …
In M U Aariffaa's case the Madras High Court had held that caste mark continues absolutely even after conversion though the degree may be ... «Live Law, Jun 15»
Is the bindi a fashion statement, a caste mark or a marriage symbol?
... to set her apart as a Hindu married woman though it has also been used as a facial adornment and a caste mark for men in some regions. «Free press journal, Mar 15»
A dream childhood in Balochistan
... later, had expected a dhoti-clad, betel-chewing, Brahmin with a caste mark, and not the agnostic, Oxford-educated individual my father was. «The Hindu, Dec 14»
Society: Suitable boy sequel
Though there was no visible caste mark on his forehead, and no Brahmanical thread showing under his shirt, one couldn't rule out the remote ... «Livemint, Oct 14»
'Converted' Muslims must get backward class certificates, Madras …
... disagreed with his claim that unlike in the case of Christianity, a convert's original caste mark is totally erased on embracing Islam. The judge ... «Times of India, Apr 14»
When All Hell Broke Loose Over an Elephant of the U Caste …
... people from the north of Tamil country, who stressed Sanskrit and used the caste mark of U on their forehead, and thenkalais, from the south, ... «The New Indian Express, Mar 14»
Bygones: A pep talk from Lord Mountbatten during Wren's Ceylon …
... beautiful and graceful the higher caste women walked, with their caste mark on their foreheads, shining black hair drawn back into a chignon, ... «Derby Telegraph, Feb 14»
Madras Miscellany
And the caste mark was given up as I thought it was an invidious distinction wearing it as also the sacred thread.” The first job a new subeditor ... «The Hindu, Feb 14»
Opposing the Mad Men of the Culture of Death
... Arab hubble-bubble (still a caste mark of leisure throughout the land), while a single healthy child sat between them reading a newspaper. «Catholic World Report, Jan 14»
