Article 370 Democracy, deliberation and the state of Tamil Nadu October 10, 2019 2 Image Credit: Darshan Simha/Marina Beach/ Flickr ; Licence: 2.0 Generic CC By 2.0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR and Jeyannathann Karunanithi. The Government of India…
Beef ban Caste calculations and curry leaves: Dalits and the 2019 elections April 17, 2019 1 Written by Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran. Dalit votes could be decisive in the 2019 general elections in India. One of the pillars of the…
Election Commissioner The electoral politics of caste in Tamil Nadu: Why TTV Dhinakaran matters more for the BJP than the DMK April 9, 2019 0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR. With the two major Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu (TN) forming broad alliances in advance of the Indian general elections,…
Caste Caste and its limits in the electoral politics of Tamil Nadu April 3, 2019 0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR and Jeyannathann Karunanithi. The general perception of caste as determining the winning ability of a candidate in Indian elections is unclear in…
Identity politics Bull-vaulting and Cultural Politics in South India February 27, 2017 0 Written by S. Theodore Baskaran. In January, about a hundred thousand people thronged Marina Beach in Chennai in a peaceful protest that lasted for five…
