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in contemporary Punjab, as an ideology, it survives and thrives as a source of identity. Sikhism and the caste question : Dalits and their in politics Punjab contemporary Surinder S. Jodhka Caste has been seen ...
and humanist attitude towards religion are explored. The complex political and intellectual responses of Hindu and Dalit leaders to the proposed mass conversions to Sikhism in the mid-1930s reveal dimensions ...
, Brahmin priests mediate contact and exchange between Nagaraja and his devotees, unlike jagar rituals which are officiated by low- caste , or Dalit , priests. Drawing on colonial categories and theories ...
) and the conversion of Dalits (lower- caste Hindi) to another faith. It seems to accommodate the principle of religious freedom but opposes the right to propagate one’s faith.43 Jainism originally proselytized ...
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