I totally concur with Ranju on this. I am pretty much against blanket assumptions on what Dalits understand and what they don't. My grouse actually is that the upper-caste elite and the beneficiaries of the existing power structures are ill-qualified to understand the Dalit perspective.
Rohit On 3/25/08, ranju radha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mayavati is into power politics > if issue based alliances in civil society could have "universal > brahman/"upper" casstes" why deny the same possibility in politics > > if Mayavati' could utilise the bureaucracy to make some changes (it wont > happen over night) that would be nice > like it or not chiftains of civil society should accept the agency of > mayavati and how she use Dalit/brahmin/OBC/muslim combination effectively in > UPs politcs.. > critique of mayavati is indeed needd from dalit perspective.. > the prblm is in the assumption that DAlits cant understand anything and > chieftains of civil society has to make them aware of it... i was > questioning it. > dalits from their day to day experience are theorising society/culture/ > they understood wht ambedkar said from their lived experiences > evolving dalit discourse will be testimony to > > chengara brings forth the agency of people and their struggle itself is > theorisation of critique of kerala model of devpt and class deterministic > marxist discourse of the region > > > On 3/25/08, venukm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > With all appreciation and pride for Mayavathi ,let one also be > > reminded of this slogan, reportedly used by the BSP in the electoral > > campaign that led Mayavathi ultimately to the CM's post. > > "Brahman sankh bajaayega, haathi aage badaayega." > > Venu.K.M > > > > - > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
