Why do Dalits dislike Gandhi?
The fight between Bharat Ratna Baba Saheb Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar (1891-1956) and M.K. Gandhi (1869-1948) is well documented in the chronicles of Indian history. Dr. Ambedkar was a champion…
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Separate electorate vis a vis joint electorate with reservation-True political rights to untouchables (SCs)
In modern democratic governance, political representation of citizens is vital to the public policy-making process. Every citizen must have the right to be represented in legislative bodies that frame policies…
Sharon Murder case – A ‘caste killing’ disguised as a ‘love-hate’ murder in Kerala
The news that fuelled the newsrooms of Kerala last year in October has returned to the discussions once again as Greeshma R Nair, the prime accused in Sharon Raj's murder…
Caste Census Will Expose The Culprits: Anand Teltumbde
Role of caste in Indian Politics is significant and It influences the political landscape, electoral strategies, and socio-economic dynamics of the country. Caste, a social system based on hereditary occupational divisions, has…
Governor Newsom’s Veto on SB 403 on Caste Discrimination in California Is Disappointing
It's unfortunate that Mr. Newsom failed to understand the goals of the nefarious Hindutva nexus. Casteism in the United States can be more covert and subtle than in South Asia,…
IAMC expresses disappointment over Governor Newsom’s decision to veto bill on caste discrimination in California
Washington, D.C. (October 9, 2023)— The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), a prominent advocacy organization committed to promoting justice, pluralism, and the civil rights of Indian Americans, has expressed its…
The Unholy Origins of Castes in India
Adi Shankaracharya, reflecting on the sublime mysteries of non-dualism, the undifferentiated reality and the irrevocable principle of oneness governing all existence, emerged from the waters after performing his daily ablutions…
Poona Pact: A Reappraisal
Special on Poona Pact Day on 24th September Caste is considered the cornerstone of Indian Hindu society. In this structure of hierarchical inequality, the untouchables were at the bottom and…
Dr.Ambedkar, Sanatan Dharma and Dalit Politics
At present, the entire country is discussing the remarks made by Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, in a meeting about Sanatana Dharma. In this, he…
Brazen and unchecked casteism, even in schools of Periyarist Tamil Nadu, Dalit teen and sister hacked by dominant caste students
A 17-year-old Dalit student Chinnadurai, and his 14-year-old sister were attacked with sickles, at 10:30 pm on August 9 at his house, by six minors in Nanguneri in Tamil Nadu’s…
Caste system and unitary state
Caste system is not federal. It is in a unitary because of its hierarchical nature. The castes are separate but not independent or equal. It is one caste centric and…
IMSD condemns caste-based discrimination by a Kerala mosque
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) is shocked by the decision of a masjid committee in Kerala asking a Dalit Muslim to stay away from a general meeting on the…
Comrade DV Rao: ‘Resist Caste Atrocities Militantly’
Pictures of Keelavenmani massacre, on Christmas night, 1968, and its memorial. 42 agri labor, most of them dalits- women and children- were burnt to death in the hut they had…
Who ‘stagnated’ the Ambedkarite ‘movement’?
Ambedkarite movement is a term most Dalits, Bahujans, Activists, Academia from Social Sciences and Political fraternity are aware of. This has been and will be used abundantly in their writings,…
Ambedkarites need to be content creators
On 14th April 2023, I had an opportunity to meet and listen to Prof Scott R. Stroud at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar Mumbai. He has recently authored an…
Omnipresent Caste
by Sanjana Sree Manusanipalli and Sandeep Pandey The city is supposed to be the place where anyone can be anything they want to be. They say in a city like…
Anti-Caste Laws in America: Thwarting Aryan Hatred Against Jesus As Dalit?
Lot of discussion and writing is happening in India about anti-caste laws and rules getting framed in America, the dream land of Dwijas of India. Several Hindutva intellectuals are telling…
Radical Desi declares Kshama Sawant as Person of the Year 2023
Recognizing the historic move of banning caste-based discrimination by a Seattle City Councillor, Vancouver-based online magazine has decided to pick her as person of the year. Kshama Sawant, the lone…
Seattle’s ban on caste discrimination has created history in America: Indian American Coalition
Seattle, WA (February 21, 2023) – A coalition of Indian-American civil rights organizations today commended the Seattle City Council for its leadership in passing the historic legislation to ban…
Climate Crisis, SDGs & Shit-dumped Water
Climate Disaster; as the mounting scientific evidence is pointing to a fast-approaching inevitable happening of ‘human extinction’, the attention of the world is turning towards the details of the potential…
Persistence of Caste as the axial principle of stratification
Based on his twenty-one-year fieldwork, Jonathan P Parry authored ‘Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town’, in which he argued the weakening of the caste…
Atrocities against SCs and STs in Odisha shows an increasing trend – NCRB report 2021
The state is featured among the top five states having more number of atrocity cases against SCs and STs. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its annual report Crime in…
AKSC urges companies in the USA to include caste discrimination in the policy documents
Ambedkar King Study Circle’s 3rd annual conference urged the companies in the USA to include caste discrimination in the policy documents Anti-caste activists gathered in Cupertino on Aug 27th under…
From Ambedkars’ Chavdar Talab to Indra Meghwal
Indra Meghwal a nine year old student of Sarswati Vidya Mandir, Jalore in Rajasthan was beaten by his teacher on 20th July 2022. The crime of this boy, was that…
The Culturalization of Caste in India: An Interview with Balmurli Natrajan
by Balmurli Natrajan and Raghav Kaushik Dr. Balmurli Natrajan is Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University of New Jersey, USA. He works at the intersections of the material and…
Adi-Hindu Movement, The Chimera of Social Equality and The Way Forward
Co-written by Ms. Akanksha Sharma and Mr. Skand Priya I The phenomenon of caste as we see it today has evolved historically and been shaped materially. It is also perhaps the most…
St. Devasahayam’s Caste, Crucifixion And His Resurrection As A Global Shudra Saint
The canonization of the first ever layman of India, Devasahayam, or Lazarus (1712--1752) as saint, on the lines of Mother Theresa or on the lines of St.Peter, by the Vatican…
Bahujan politics needs a new radical alternative
Dr. Ambedkar is considered the father of Dalit politics. He raised the demand for political rights to the Dalits in the Round Table Conferences and despite Gandhiji's strong opposition, the…
Future of Dalits in India
(Note: Although Bhagwan Das wrote this article in 2001, but in this he had identified the shortcomings and weaknesses of Dalits and predicted a bleak future of Dalits, it is…
Conversation with Dr Manisha Bangar Part I
Phule-Ambedkarite ideology is the only alternative for Bahujans, says Dr Manisha Bangar, National Vice President, People’s Party of India, former National Vice President, BAMCEF in conversation with Vidya Bhushan Rawat…
The Shudra Kings And Brahmins: A mirror image of history
But for the accidental reading of Shahu Maharaj’s letter to the retired Governor of Bombay presidency, Lord Sydenham, written in 1918, I would not have thought of writing this essay.…
Privatisation as a Counter to Dalit Assertion
For Dalits now and backward castes then, from Phule to Periyar, while the education provided by the ancient natural philosophies like Budhism, modern egalitarian religions like Christianity, exploitative but ‘progressive’…
Without ‘Annihilation of Caste’, It is Not Possible to Establish an Egalitarian Society in India
“Inequality is the soul of Hinduism”. And that is why he finally came to conclusion that, “I was born a Hindu, but will not die a Hindu” (Dr. BR. Ambedkar)…
Ambedkar on Castes In India And Among Muslims
This is part-1 of an article, being published to mark the Birth Anniversary on April 14, of Dr. BR Ambedkar (1891-1956). Referring to “a great deal of controversy” regarding …
The Shudra Predicament
With the recent book "The Shudras : vision for a new path" (edited by Karthika Raja Karuppasamy and Kancha Ilaiah) and the Shudra farmers protesting on…
Shudras And The Central Universities
A well-known Dalit scholar Gopal Guru, presently editor of the Economic and Political Weekly, once wrote that “Indian Social Science represents a pernicious divide between theoretical Brahmins and empirical…
Untouchable
I live next to a textile mill complex from an era long-passed. Today, the old stone buildings have been reduced to rubble and the trees that surrounded them, more than…
State And Annihilation Of Caste
Indian state is part of Indian society and Indian society is built on caste based social order. That way state or the government can do very little to destroy…
Caste System in India: from the eyes of a Retired IPS Officer turned Social Activist
The caste system in India is the oldest surviving social hierarchy. India is as much a caste-based country as it is an agriculture-based country. The whole societal structure is based…
Revisiting Keezhvenmani after 50 years; The Smoldering coal-Then and now
This article is about visiting Keezhvenmani after 50 years, where the Keezhvenmani Massacre was held and I discussed about the present condition of the village. It was during my post-graduation…
An attempt to revive the “Self-Respect movement”
Unlike other leaders, why is Ambedkar’s statue caged? Is a question that needs to be answered before starting any debate about Dalits and the policies being framed for them. India’s…
So You want to ally with the Dalit Rights Movement?
On 25th May 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man was murdered in police custody in Minneapolis, USA. A video showing a white police officer kneeling on his neck for…
Political Economy of Caste in India
Caste plays a role at every stage of an Indian’s economic life: in school, university, the labor market, and into old age. The influence of caste extends beyond private economic…
The Irony of Fear of Victims and the Fearlessness of Perpetrators in a Nation of Castes
After the death of a Dalit girl from Hathras in a hospital at New Delhi, many video cameras turn to members of girl’s family to gather the know about of…
Requirement Of An Independent Constitutional Body
The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was enacted with a main objective to protect marginalised communities viz. schedule castes and tribes against discrimination and atrocities. Sec.3 of the said Act enunciates the nature…
Strengthen National Commission of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
Introduction National Commission of Scheduled Castes and National Commission of Scheduled Tribes, both constitutional bodies constituted to protect and monitor implementation of safeguards to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have…
Cisco Case Shows Indians Still Take Caste Where they Go
What happens to caste when Indians migrate to Western countries? Do their feelings of being born superior or inferior, their belief in the purity-pollution ethic, just melt away? The “model…
Caste Atrocities in Tamil Nadu in the wake of Covid-19 Pandemic
Humanity, which aspires to move to the moon to expand its empire by virtue of its so-called scientific advancement is forced to learn an indelible lesson taught by the virus…
Are Casteism and Racism Blood Brothers?
Caste is not entirely the same as Race, yet Casteism and Racism remain blood brothers. They are both systems of structured oppression which date back centuries. While Racism surfaced back…
Democracies can’t breathe without responding to Race and Caste discrimination
Two of the biggest democracies in the world now face the biggest challenges in their political history. Yes, I am speaking about United States and India. One has failed to…
Social Inequality in a Political Democracy
In spite of India’s perceptible economic and social development, the caste system still obstructs and isolates the section of its population, the Scheduled Caste (SC) also called as Dalits and…
Mahishasur: A people’s Hero
Alternative Readings of the Durga-Mahishasur Myth. A Revolt Against Brahmanical Epistemology: The beginning of a new cultural renaissance in India The alternative readings of myths from Brahmanical mythological reservoir mark the…
Caste System Remains The Biggest Threat To Democracy
Despite a great threat to their own existence inside the JNU campuses which is being 'cleaned' to maintain Brahmanical purity and hegemony ( it was always there but in a…
Vaarasa (The Inheritance ) – A Compelling Short Fiction On Caste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrEuMeetLD4&feature=youtu.be "The Inheritance" is a compelling fictional narrative of a young man who is sucked up by the whirlpool of caste system. This short fiction depicts with conviction how even…
Now You Don’t See Me, Now You Don’t-JatiIndia: A Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present And Future
An interview with MuslimPress Why did you choose the name “Jatiindia” for your work? What’s the significance of this name? Inequality exists in societies all across the globe. Designed by…
When The Voiceless Get A Voice
If there’s one overwhelming sign that numbers mean nothing and organization means everything, it is the plight of Dalits and Muslims in India. Dalits and Muslims are officially 17% &…
I Am 16, Dalit, And A Video Of Me Being Tortured In Class Went Viral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdC3iS1kGkI I am 16 years old, a student of a government school in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. For the last few days, everyone wants to know why I was beaten so…
Satya Sodhak Trinity Of Mahatma Jothirao Phule
We pay our tributes to Mahatma Jothirao Phule, the founder of Satya Sodhak Samaj, on this 143rd year of its foundation, namely September 24, 1873. Mahatma Jothirao Phule, and his…
Inquiring Into The Role Of CPI(M) In The Annihilation Of Caste
Vijoo Krishnan recently led a team of CPI(M) and its mass organizations to the historic Dalit Asmita Yatra (culminating in Una on 15-Aug 2016). In the light of this, and…
Periyar: Rationalist Bahujan Socialist Revolutionary And The Crusader Against Casteism
Erode Venkata Ramasamy Naickar(17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), commonly known as Periyar also referred as E. V. R. or Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist, freedom fighter…
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