..., an attempt to “claim whiteness” and inclusion through leveraging racist and casteist ideologies. The centenary of Thind offers an opportunity to revisit the case itself as well as take up broader questions regarding migration, citizenship, caste, racialization, and naturalization. We open our introduction...

... was confronting racial prerequisite laws concerning citizenship, the Hindu right (or Hindutva) is protesting the inclusion of caste in antidiscrimination laws. Yet, reading these together enables us to see how upper-caste South Asians have historically mobilized caste to uphold not only Brahminical, but also...

...Arjun Shankar This article uses the conceptual space of “brown blood” to analyze United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind at the intersection of race and caste. The racial politics of blood has been somewhat submerged in the ongoing discussions of racism and racialization, which have been dominated...

..., I argue that the marriage and subsequent divorce show that he consistently claimed Whiteness for years after his Supreme Court case, both in public and in private, and on the basis of descent, geography, caste, racial science, previous court rulings, and his own blood. On a cold and moonless night...

...UC San Diego Ethnic Studies This position statement was posted by the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego, on December 13, 2021. It documents an increasing awareness of caste-based discriminations and calls for institution, legal, and social interventions...