Registered atrocity cases against Dalits rose sharply in Tamil Nadu between 2019 and 2023. The number matters—but it cannot, by itself, tell us whether violence, reporting, registration, or all three changed.
Explore the impact of the Dravidian movement on Tamil Nadu's caste system. Did it truly dismantle the caste pyramid or merely shift power from Brahmins to dominant intermediate castes, leaving Dalits marginalized?
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Political ScienceOctober 1, 20259 min readEvergreen
NEET is defended on the grounds that every applicant writes the same paper. Tamil Nadu's own committee measured what happened next: the state-board share of medical seats fell from 95% to 64%, Tamil-medium students went from 456 to 56, and the share of admitted students who were repeaters rose from 12% to 71%.