Tag: JNU
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Visit with JNU History Faculty
Talking with new colleagues [Clicking on the title above will bring up a clip of our mingled group.] Meeting with the History Faculty at JNU We’ve been so busy – and stimulated by a barrage of new experiences – over the past week that it has been hard to find time to reflect on what…
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Caste
On May 16th we were fortunate to have Professor Dipankar Gupta of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) present a stimulating talk to us on the caste system in India. Caste, it is said, developed as an occupational social hierarchy. Roughly, priests were placed at the top, with rulers and warriors, farmers and traders, and servants and…