Dalit Memory and Dalit Identity
Abstract Introduction Remembered histories make up our inner lives, and that of our families and communities. Happy and joyful memories, dimly-remembered and unexplained events as children have a way of…
Caste System
Legal Framework to Empower Property Denied Castes in India
We are meeting today, the day that signifies this convergence of Law and Economics in the form of adopting the Constitution of India 74 years ago in 1949. The person…
Caste Census is a Weapon against Hindutva Fascism and a Facilitator of Democratisation
As Modi is set to inaugurate the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on 22 January 2024, it will be quite unprecedented in parliamentary democracy. According to the Constitution of India which…
Scriptural basis of varna/caste system in India
Let us see how the Hindu scriptures paved the way for the caste system. There are many important ingredients in the varna system that gave rise to the caste system.…
Chidambaram’s New Caste Consciousness
P.Chidambaram is a senior most leader of the Congress party. Besides being a Harvard law graduate, he is a well established political leader in the Congress party. He comes from…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism?
I kept watching the funerals of people killed by the brutal coronavirus in the global pandemic of Covid-19 on TV channels and read about them in newspapers. Those dead bodies…
Uttar Pradesh tops in Crime against Adivasis
Recently Crime in India-2019 Report has been released by National Crime Records Bureau. In this report, in the year 2019, the statistics of crime against Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) have been…
Who all among you is a “Srivastava”? Why Education Cannot be the Only Answer to Annihilation of Caste
The recent Hathras incident of violence against a 19-year-old Dalit girl has boomeranged the relevance of caste question in academia and at least digital media. It has again illustrated the…
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…
Why is Bengal still Caste-less?
In early September, circles from the Bengali academia and Left political spectrum, strongly vocalized their seemingly disgruntled voices against the trolling of Professor Maroona Murmu, Assistant Professor from the Department…
Understanding The Dalit Struggle For Identity In Gujarat
ABSTRACT The recent incidents of Dalit oppression in Gujarat has got the attention of the entire country. Gujarat though known for its development and progress is still ruled by feudal…
I was born a bad person and my fellow savarnas, so were you all
I was born a bania, a savarna or upper-caste, and that is why I was born a bad person. Let me explain. I am part of that minority for whom…
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…
No Court Of Law Can Stigmatise A Community
The Madras High Court comprising of Hon’ble Justices S Nagamuthu and N Seshasayeerecently laid down alandmark judgment wherein they strongly questioned: the prejudice that people belonging to aparticular community…
Caste, Gender And Other Such Issues Should Be Dealt With As Class Struggle: Anand Teltumbde
Anand Teltumbde is a civil rights activist, political analyst, columnist and author of many books. He has a long association with peoples’ struggle spanning over three decades backing his theorizations…
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…
Caste Question In India: As I understand It
What follows is not meant to be an academic analysis of caste and its operation in India. Such an analysis has been done time again by experts who have studied…
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…
Visioning Bahujan Rashtra Against Hindu Rashtra: BSS vs RSS
This is a monograph of an organization which is involved in reclaiming the Bahujan’s historical legacy of resistance and struggle for right to dignity for all Bahujans and creating knowledge,…
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