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சாதியும் அண்டமும்Caste & Cosmology

Five dossiers, nine patterns, one Keplerian frame. The Tamil Shaiva canon already contains the counter-current; the Eelam Tamil record already contains the struggle; the unitary state's interruption is already documented. This cluster does not flatten any of those into a slogan.

Sūrya at centre. Chandra, Maṅgala, Budha, Bṛhaspati, Śukra, Śani, Rāhu, Ketu in scaled Keplerian orbits computed from NASA JPL J2000.0 mean elements. Click any graha to surface its structural pattern — see the nine patterns and the maths frame. This is not jyotiṣa; this site casts no horoscopes.
Ten hard rules — locked before any draft
  1. Tier-A only: peer-reviewed monograph or journal, UN/ICG report, primary statute, official census, Hansard.
  2. Never name a living individual's caste.
  3. Never name a present-day village by caste.
  4. Never aggregate TLTE's own counts of caste — cite Pfaffenberger / Thiranagama / Silva-Sivapragasam-Thanges instead.
  5. Always pair internal-hierarchy evidence with state-suppression evidence.
  6. LTTE-and-caste material is published under Dossier-04 safety rules.
  7. Diaspora dossier: structural patterns only, never families or matrimonial platforms.
  8. Two-layer rule on every page (Now / Becoming).
  9. Every dossier carries a "How this is misused" box.
  10. Comparative frame: Travancore 1936, Kerala temple-entry, US Jim Crow, Burakumin, UK Equality Act 2010 s.9(5)(a).

The five dossiers

Why this cluster does not weaken self-determination

The legal test under ICCPR Art 1, GA Res 1514 (1960), GA Res 2625 (1970), the Quebec Reference (SCC 1998) and the Kosovo Advisory Opinion (ICJ 2010) is the relationship between a people and the state denying their rights. No society — Sinhala, Tamil, English, Indian, French — would pass an internal-purity audit, and none has been required to. TLTE engages caste honestly because the right does not depend on hiding it; it depends on the record being honest enough to be designed against. The Min economy's refusal of caste fields, the Council's k=25 cohort floor, and Karuthu Vellam's ε≤1.0 differential privacy are designed answers — see The Architecture.