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Welcome to WikiProject Indian caste system. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Indian caste system and the organization of information and articles on this topic. It is also a project that aims to document Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi artists, writers, activists and movements. It aims to lessen the red pages involving events, icons and seminal works in this subjects. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.
Category | WikiProject Indian caste system articles |
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Parent project(s) | India |
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Goals
[edit]- Create and improve articles related to the Indian caste system
- Feature reliable sources on all articles related to the Indian caste system
- Create new articles on notable personalities, events, movements, and seminal works associated with the Indian caste system, with a focus on reducing red pages.
- Document and highlight the contributions of Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi individuals in various fields such as arts, literature, activism, and leadership.
Scope
[edit]- The historical evolution and social implications of the Indian caste system.
- Key events, movements, and milestones in the struggle against caste-based discrimination.
- Biographical articles for notable personalities from marginalized communities.
- Seminal works, publications, and writings that have influenced discourse on the Indian caste system.
- Regional perspectives on the manifestation of the caste system across different states and regions in India.
- Representation of Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi communities in media-related articles.
- Educational resources, including curated lists, timelines, and bibliographies related to the Indian caste system.
- Non-Savarna names for deities, cities, rivers etc.
- Non-Savarna recipes, ingredients, practices, dialects, scripts etc.
- For topics covering works of fiction, such as books or movies, see WP:FICTION, find material on reception, impact and themes. See To Kill A Mockingbird for an example on how to best write an article about a book. For a movie example, see Sholay.
Open tasks
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Participants
[edit]Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- --ayush (reach out) (I am interested in working on books/movies that approach the topic) 16:26, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
- --Dr.SunBD (reach out) (I am interested in working on Vedic Clans of India)
- Miximon (talk) (I am interested in working on Dalit literature and authors) 05:21, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
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Articles
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[edit]Please feel free to list your new Indian caste system–related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
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Alerts
[edit]Articles to be merged
- 10 Aug 2024 – Distribution of Scheduled Castes by district in Uttar Pradesh (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of Scheduled Castes in Uttar Pradesh by MaxA-Matrix (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 29 May 2024 – Draft:Thiyar (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by FrancisSobieski123 (t · c)
- 23 May 2024 – Draft:Lingayat Vani (caste) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by PerspicazHistorian (t · c) was declined by Bobby Cohn (t · c) on 04 Sep 2024
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