TopicRadhika Iyengar

Topic: Radhika Iyengar

Electric crematorium won’t give moksha, caste Hindus won’t touch dead. Dom jobs in Banaras safe

Radhika Iyengar - October 18, 2023

In 'Fire on the Ganges: Life among the Dead in Banaras', author Radhika Iyengar writes how no ‘upper-caste’ Hindu will be willing to perform the task of burning corpses, even if the said work has been ‘glorified’ for centuries as the only way of ‘providing moksha’.

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