Caste System

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The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Caste
2. International Herald Tribune: Riding the Train of Dreams Across India (November 13, 2007) 
3. The Rising Nepal: Barbers Demand Proportional System in Elections (November 8, 2007)
4. Los Angeles Times: A Gift for India's Inter-Caste Couples (November 4, 2007)
5. The Economist: Business and Caste in India ((October 4, 2007)
6. India Together News: Caste
7. YouTube Video: India's Caste System (Time: 4:38)

Caste System Recent News Stories

• Google News: Caste System
• Rediff India Abroad: "Of Job Hunting and Indian Caste System" (November 2, 2007)
• Estes Park Trail-Gazette: "Uncle Taj’s Cabin — The New Old Slavery Time Bomb" (November 2, 2007)
• Agence France-Presse: "India's Toilet Champion Sees Human Liberation in Loos for All" (October 29, 2007)
• New York Times: "Indian Shepherds Stoop to Conquer Caste System" (June 3, 2007)

Caste System Background

Caste in Hinduism

• BBC Religion & Ethics: Hinduism: The Caste System
• University of Wyoming: Hinduism: Social Organization
• Dr. Subhash C. Sharma: "Hindu Caste System & Hinduism" (2001)

Caste Politics and Nationalism

• Wikipedia: Caste Politics in India
• TamilNation.org: Caste and the Tamil Nation 
• Organiser: "Don’t Negate Ram, Save Ram Sethu" (November 18, 2007)
• BBC News: "Is Caste Discrimination a Matter of International Concern?" (September 7, 2001)
• NPR News: "An Untouchable Subject?" (August 29, 2001)

Anti-Caste Movement

• The Guardian: "Indian Leader Likens Caste System to Apartheid Regime" (December 28, 2006)
• Anti-Caste.org: "On the Social Function of Caste: a Reply to Jared Diamond" (March 03, 2006)
• Nepal Dalit Information Service: "Caste-Based Discrimination" (November 29, 2004) (274KB)  
• World Conference Against Racism: "Annihilation of Caste" Part 1 and Part 2 (April 28, 2002)

A Metaphor for Stratification

• BusinessWeek: "Googling For Gold" (December 5, 2005) 
• The Village Voice: "The Caste System" (September 20, 2005)
• WBUR: On Point: "The New American Caste System" (April 26, 2005)
• Rediff: "The MBA Caste System" (October 25, 2004)
• Z Communications: "The Racial Caste System" (2002)

Caste System: Global and Historical

• IMADR: "Summary of Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern Symposium" (February 27, 2002)
• Human Rights Watch: "Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern" (September, 2001)

India

• Wikipedia: Indian Caste System and Caste System Among Indian Christians
• The Divine Life Society: Caste Problem in India
• Santa Clara University: The Caste System in India
• Library of Congress: India: Caste and Class
• Human Rights Watch: "Hidden Apartheid" (February, 2007) (573KB) 
• Washington Post: "Tsunami Opens Fault Lines in Old Caste System" (January 18, 2005) 
• National Geographic: "India's "Untouchables" Face Violence, Discrimination" (June 2, 2003) 

Pakistan and South Asian Muslims

• Wikipedia: Caste Among South Asian Muslims
• Anti-Caste.org: Notes on the Muslim Question in India Today
• IndianMuslims: "Identification of Backward Classes in the Muslim Community" (November 6, 2007) (536KB) 
• The Telegraph: "Andhra Fatwa Draws Flak" (June 21, 2007)
• Countercurrents: "Social Stratification Among Muslims In India" (June 15, 2004)
• Rediff India Abroad: "Backward Muslims Protest Denial of Burial" (March 6, 2003)

Japan

• Wikipedia: Burakumin
• Community, Democracy & Performance: "Buraku" (2003)
• ejcjs: "Solving Anti-Burakujūmin Prejudice in the 21st Century" (January 31, 2003)
• Human Rights Documentation Center: "Caste, Ethnicity and Nationality" (June 18, 2001)
• Journal of Buddhist Ethics: "The Burakumin" (2000)

Korea

• Wikipedia: Baekjeong
• The Association of Asian Studies: Slavery in Traditional Korea
• TIME: "Confucius' Outcasts" (December 10, 1965)

Yemen

• Emory Law School: "Ethnic Violence as a Caste System: a Case of Cruel Tradition" (June 11, 2007)
• IDSN: "Discrimination Against Al-Akhdam People in Yemen Criticised by CERD" (August 22, 2006) (62KB) 
• IRIN News: "Akhdam People Suffer History of Discrimination" (November 1, 2005)
• Countercurrents: "Caste In Yemen" (April 25, 2005)

Africa

• Wikipedia: Caste System in Africa
• BBC News: "Marrying Across Somalia's Caste Lines" (December 12, 2006)
• New Internationalist: "Tied to the Job" (June, 2005)
• Africa Economic Analysis: "The ‘Caste System’ in Nigeria, Democratization and Culture" (June 13, 1999)

Latin America

• Wikipedia: Casta
• Zona Latina: Racial Classifications in Latin America
• New York University: "Casta Paintings" (February 12, 2004)
• Glendale Community College: "Casta Painting: Identity and Social Stratification in Colonial Mexico" (1997)

Caste System Commentary and Criticism

• Global Politician: "Dirty Politics In Nepal" (November 13, 2007)
• The Rising Nepal: "Occupational Divisions" (November 13, 2007)
• MeriNews: "Dalits are Also Human as We All Are" (November 13, 2007) 
• The Hindu: " The Caste System — India’s Apartheid?" (August 18, 2007)
• Socialist Worker Online: "Modern-Day Caste System" (February 2, 2007)
• North Western University: "The Indian Caste System as a Means..." (November 9, 2006) (977KB) 
• Ludwig von Mises Institute: "How Not To Dismantle the Caste System" (September 2, 2006)

Caste System Message Boards and Blogs

• Doc Searls Weblog: IQ: A Caste System that Gets Personal
• Marginal Revolution: Was the Indian Caste System Efficient?
• Washington Post: On Faith: A Caste System for Christians 
• New Economist: Explaining the Persistence of India's Caste System
• Joseph D'souza: The End of Upper Caste Propaganda in Global Forums

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