In another case of caste-based violence among school students in Tamil Nadu, more than 20 caste Hindu students belonging to the Urali Gounder community attacked a Dalit student and his grandmother in Karur district on Saturday, August 26, for laughing inside a bus.

This is the third such attack in the state in 20 days.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I was married into a TamBram family, and after a while you can just clock Iyers vs Iyengars (which is a hyperfine distinction if there ever was one). It’s based on names, differences in pronunciation, items of jewelry… Those are like the differences between a Londoner and somebody from Oxford.

    But a Bengali or a Gujurati? They look totally different, like the difference between Connor McGregor and Al Pacino.

    India is a BIG place, it has only ever been unified as an empire, never as a nation.

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      1 year ago

      At the same time, I think it’s a bit more fluid than that. You’ll definitely have individuals who can pass for different ethnic groups. I’m South Indian and I can often pass for North Indian (especially because my name is typically North Indian).

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      “This is the city of Madras,
      The home of the curry and the dal
      Where Iyers speak only to Iyengars,
      And Iyengars speak only to God.” - Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős