01161nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100004200041245010900083260003300192300003500225520075800260773003301018260505b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSunilraj, Balu and  Borah, Prithiraj   aBetween assertion and victimhood: Upper-caste discontent and the protests against UGC equity regulations  aEconomic & Political Weekly   a 61(16), Apr 18, 2026: p.35-40  aFocusing on the protests and debates against the recent University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, the article examines how upper-caste common sense manifests as both assertion and victimhood when caste-based policies challenge entrenched exclusions and hierarchies. Recent protests have displayed an unabashed upper-caste assertion in public space, not merely through claims of victimhood but also through open sloganeering such as Brahmanvad Zindabad. This marks a qualitative shift in upper-caste politics, one in which the earlier “cloaks of civility” appear to have been discarded. –Reproduced 

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  aEconomic & Political Weekly