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In pre-partition, undivided Punjab, for example, between 1881 and 1941, the Hindu population dropped from 43.8 per cent to 29.1 per cent, due largely to the conversion of the subordinated castes to Islam, Sikhism and Christianity.
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
A pliant self, a collage of fragments unceasing in its becoming, ever open to new experience—these are just the psychological conditions suited to short-term work experience, flexible institutions, and constant risk-taking. __But there is little room for understanding the breakdown of a career, if you believe that all life history is just an assemblage of fragments.__ Nor is there any room for assaying the gravity and pain of failure, if failure is just another incident.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
The criterion of willingness to pay is structurally distorted by the structure of economic inequalities.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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