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The Persistence of Caste Volume 01 :: Issue 01 February 2020 ISSN 2639-4928 THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE EDITORIAL Why a Journal on Caste Laurence Simon, Sukhadeo Thorat FELICITATION His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama ARTICLES Recasting Food: An Ethnographic Study on How Caste and Resource Inequality Perpetuate Social Disadvantage in India Nakkeeran N, Jadhav S, Bhattacharya A, Gamit S, Mehta C, Purohit P, Patel R and Doshi M A Commentary on Ambedkar’s Posthumously Published “Philosophy of Hinduism” Rajesh Sampath Population - Poverty Linkages and Health Consequences: Understanding Global Social Group Inequalities Sanghmitra Sheel Acharya Painting by Savi Sawarkar Nationalism, Caste-blindness and the Continuing Problems of War-Displaced Panchamars in Post-war Jaffna Society, Sri Lanka Kalinga Tudor Silva FORUM The Revolt of the Upper Castes Jean Drèze Caste, Religion and Ethnicity: Role of Social Determinants in Accessing Rental Housing Vinod Kumar Mishra BOOK REVIEWS Indian Political Theory: Laying Caste and Consequences: Looking Through the Lens of Violence G. C. Pal the Groundwork for Svaraj Aakash Singh Rathore As a Dalit Woman: My Life in a Caste-Ghetto of Kerala Maya Pramod, Bluestone Rising Scholar 2019 Award Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens Uma Chakravarti Mirrors of the Soul: Performative Egalitarianisms and Genealogies The Empire of Disgust: of the Human in Colonial-era Travancore, 1854-1927 Vivek V. Narayan, Prejudice, Discrimination, Bluestone Rising Scholar 2019 Award and Policy in India and the US Hasan, Z., Huq,Volume A., Nussbaum, 01 :: Issue 01 February 2020 ISSN 2639-4928 Volume 01 :: Issue 01 February 2020 ISSN 2639-4928 In THENāki’s Wake: PERSISTENCE Slavery and Caste Supremacy inOF the American CASTE Ceylon M., Verma, V. (Eds.)Volume 01 :: Issue 01 February 2020 EDITORIAL ISSN 2639-4928 THEWhy a Journal PERSISTENCE on Caste Laurence Simon, Sukhadeo OF ThoratCASTE Mission EDITORIALMark E. 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