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Where There Is Smoke: Haryana’s Hookah Culture Maintains Casteism | Article 14

In #Haryana’s villages, the tradition of smoking #hookah, a device used to smoke tobacco, is one of many ways in which #caste discrimination is practiced. The communal activity of smoking hookah has always been practised within a caste group, barring those from another caste to participate. Residents of Kumbha and Sisar villages of Haryana’s Hisar district explained how caste decides who can smoke with whom. Brahmins do not smoke with any other community, while Jats usually share their hookah with some backward castes but they don't smoke with Schedule Castes. Within the SC community, the Chamar community does not allow Balmikis and Dhanak to smoke with them. #Caste #Haryana #panchayat #hookah #casteism About Article 14: In 2.5 years of delivering journalism and research focused on justice, the Constitution and the operation of democracy, we at Article 14 have kept our content ad-free and intend to keep it that way. Subscribe to our growing range of research & reportage, newsletter, expert analyses, exclusive database, workshops, book extracts & more, delivered to your inbox. See options in link: https://article-14.com/page/subscription Keep unbiased, independent reportage alive. Subscribe now. Follow us on: https://www.article-14.com/   / article14live     / article14live     / article14live   Timecodes: 0:00- Intro 0:10- Tradition of smoking hookah 0:24- Casteism and hookah 2:33- Caste identity in cities 3:12- Rise in crime against SCs in Haryana 3:20- Discrimination against Dalits 4:34- Rise in intra-casteism among Dalits