[ZESTCaste] Fwd: Dalits In India: Lets Compile Info:
-- Forwarded message -- From: DR DALIP SINGH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:14:15 - Subject: [iitdalits] Dalits In India: Lets Compile Info: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I am contemplating to write a book/document on `Dalit Empowerment and their Suppression: the Past and Present'. This will be for future generations who would be interested in knowing the contribution of dalits in various fields. This will be narrated to future generation in a story form. It will work as a composite guide for all SCs in India and elsewhere to counter the propaganda of higher castes. I need the following: 1. The names of India dalit authors whom I can contact. 2. Books relating to dalit movements. 3. Names of Indian personalities (ancient and modern separately) whose contribution should be highlighted. 4. Names of dalits who participated in the national freedom movement. 5. Names of dalit women (modern/ancient) 6. Major events in the History which indicate revival of dalit consciousness and awakening. 7. Major incidents of atrocities. 8. Vision of dalits in India to be there by 2020, 2030 and 2040. What are the dreams. 9. Any other material, which you may like to send. 10. My alternate e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ZESTCaste] Dalits still living in fear in Karnataka village (News)
Dalits still living in fear in Karnataka village http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Staff Correspondent MYSORE: Fear has gripped the Dalits of Chikka Ankanahalli village in Srirangapatna taluk in Mandya district, who were targeted by "upper castes" on Friday. Eerie silence An eerie silence prevailed in the Dalit colony, and despite the presence of police platoons the fear among the victims is palpable. The deployment of forces has not helped in banishing fear among the Dalits, who say the culprits are freely roaming in the village and that the police are only promising that the accused would be arrested soon. So far, the police have arrested only nine persons. The persons who were injured have returned to the village, after treatment at K.R. Hospital in Mysore. Speaking to The Hindu, Superintendent of Police, Mandya, Seemanth Kumar Singh, said the situation was fully under control. Two cases had been registered against the "upper castes" for throwing stones at the police and attacking the Dalit colony. According to Mandya Deputy Commissioner Manjunatha Prasad, the district administration has given compensation of Rs. 10,000 each for 10 Dalits injured in the incident and repair of houses damaged has commenced. "Because of the 'tension' in the village, Dalits do not want to pass through the area dominated by 'upper castes' to procure foodgrains. In view of this, they will be given 25 kg of rice on Monday," he said.
[ZESTCaste] No FIR in Dalit immolation case (News)
www.tribune.com No FIR in Dalit immolation case Bipin Bhardwaj, Tribune News Service Batala, September 23 Even after 24 hours of recording the statement of Sandeep Singh, alias Sonu, a Dalit boy, in the presence of a judicial magistrate, the police still has not registered any case against the suspects who forced him to set himself ablaze in Matholla village yesterday. In his declaration, Sonu, who is struggling for life in Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, Amritsar, has said his master Sawinder Singh, alias Kala, Rattan Singh, Bira Singh and certain others had been harassing him over the a missing mobile phone. They charged him with stealing the phone and even threatened him. Sucha Singh, father of the victim, alleged that Sonu took the extreme step following harassment and threats by village sarpanch Raghubir Singh and his master Sawinder Singh, alias Kala. Batala SSP R.N. Dhoke said, "I have asked the area DSP to register an FIR against the persons who have been named by Sonu in his declaration after proper investigation".
[ZESTCaste] Nepal: DALITS, JANAJATIS AND MUSLIMS-THE MOST NEGLECTED
http://telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=2015 NEPAL: DALITS, JANAJATIS AND MUSLIMS-THE MOST NEGLECTED TGW "The Dalits, Muslims and the Janajatis were more affected by rampant poverty in the country", a three-year interim plan approach paper prepared by the Nepal's National Planning Commission has freshly revealed. "46 per cent of dalits, 44 per cent of Magar, Rai, Gurung, Tamang and Limbu in the Pahadi-Janajati category and 41 per cent of Muslims living in the country have been found living below the poverty line", says the NPC report further. "These groups have negligible share in the State apparatus, overall resources and the production as well", says the report. Poverty in the country is widespread and is showing an upward trend as compared to the average 31 per cent in the recent past, the report adds. Similarly, the paper also declares that the participation of Dalits, Janajatis and Madhesis are negligible in the Government bureaucracy. The major objective of the interim plan is to scrutinize earlier plans and to develop strategies to rectify past errors by increasing participation of the marginalized groups in the county, the report concludes. 2007-09-23 08:40:41
[ZESTCaste] Tension in village after murder (News)
Tension in village after murder http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/24/stories/2007092457090300.htm Muzaffarnagar: Tension prevailed in Budima village here following the alleged murder of a Dalit as villagers blocked the Panipat-Khatima highway for several hours after the incident. Earlier, the body of Inderpal (40) was found in the jungle. The body bore injury marks caused by some sharp-edged weapons, police said. The irate villagers did not allow police to hand over the victim's body to his relatives and blocked the highway for several hours, police said.
[ZESTCaste] Eroding tradition(Chandrabhan Prasad)
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=prasad%2Fprasad226.txt&writer=prasad Eroding tradition By Chandrabhan Prasad While inventions by James Hargreaves, Richard Arkright, Samuel Crompton and James Watt are duly accredited in triggering the march of machines in England, not much is attributed to Adam Smith author of the magnum opus Wealth of Nations (1776), and birth of the London Stock Exchange (1801). The final quarter of the 18th century was the launching pad for the industrial revolution. That phase witnessed battles between handlooms and powerlooms. The triumph of machine was facilitated by many factors, crucial being the intellectual umbrella hoisted by Adam Smith, and financial discipline administered by the London Stock Exchange. Indisputably, as the earliest philosophical-mentor of capitalism, Smith in his book wrote about the socio-economic rational for a capitalistic order society. The London Stock Exchange accorded capital an institutional authority. Thus, without Adam Smith and the London Stock Exchange, all discourses on the industrial revolution would be out of place. Without either of them, the machine on its own lacked any inbuilt vision. Self-mesmerised Luddites on the other hand, had their well thought of goals. They fought the machine with a purpose. Jonathan Katz, an American journalist and author, reflects upon the ideological mood of Luddites in the online magazine HotWired //www.wired.com// in following lines: "The Luddites were fighting for their way of life in the most literal sense. For centuries, they had lived in small villages in ancient valleys, using simple machines that could be operated by individuals or families. Big mills and factories meant an end to social custom and community, to personal status and individual freedom. Having worked independently on their own farms, they would be forced to use complex and dangerous machines in noisy, smelly factories for long hours, seven days a week, for slave wages. Their harvest and agricultural rituals, practiced for centuries, would perish. Fathers could no longer be with their wives and children. This new kind of labour changed notions of time and introduced concepts like work schedules and hourly wages. It despoiled whole regions, including Sherwood Forest." In other words, the march of the machine was opposed not only on grounds that handloom workers would loose jobs, but essentially because of the fear of industrial culture where their traditional social customs and community-life might wither away. As Europe soon realised, machines did eliminate Europe's tradition. In other words feudalism was defeated by capitalism, and monarchy defeated by democracy. Even Karl Marx welcomed that epoch march of machine in his Das Capital. As a matter of fact, that march of machines over tradition, march of the capitalism over feudalism, march of democracy over monarchy are inseparable. Adam's capitalism deployed machines to enhance profitability. In its own interest, capitalism began to destroy agrarianism. There was no way agrarianism and industrialisation could go together. What if machines win over traditional India? What if India's social customs and the community lives are eliminated by capitalism? What if India's agrarianism is defeated by industrial revolution? What Spinning Jenny, Water Frame, Spinning Mule and Steam Engine were to Europe 250 years ago, malls, nuclear propelled electricity, and the mass capital are to India. In other words, what machines did in the late 18th and early 19th century in Europe, the new age machine is doing in India. It is preparing a funeral ground Manu's social codes. To Manu, the untouchables, or the out-castes, or Dalits, were to live outside the settlements, and serve the society. With a machine based economic activity, Dalits-Brahman-Kshatriya-Vaishya-Shudras are seen working together for the same amount of reward. Has anyone seen Dalits and non-Dalits working together in tradition based economic activities? it is strange that the CPM and RSS are resisting the march of the machines which is fighting Manu's social agenda?
[ZESTCaste] Police fail to address our complaints, say Dalits (News)
Police fail to address our complaints, say Dalits http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 T.S. Ranganna National Human Rights Commission issues notice to police for failure of action Bangalore: Chikka Alaghatta village in Chitradurga taluk has 300 families, of which 100 are Dalits, most of them belonging to the Madiga, a sub-sect among the Scheduled Castes. They were nursing a desire to have a primary school under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Rangaswamy, who had a stint as a primary school teacher, got elected to the Alaghatta Village Panchayat and obtained sanction to start a school for Dalits. This reportedly upset a section of the upper caste families. In March 2006, some of them attacked Mr. Rangaswamy. Attacked They allegedly attacked him again when he got a job for a Dalit in the panchayat. Gangamma Hemachari, a gram panchayat member belonging to Vishwakarma caste, had invited him for tea when a group of people belonging to the upper caste threw stones at him. The member said that some villagers had declared Rs. 1 lakh reward for his head. He is afraid of going back to the village. Santhosh S. and his mother, Lakshmamma, of Kankenahalli colony in Magadi taluk complain that two villagers had assaulted him two years ago for refusing to work in their fields. Mr. Santhosh lay unconscious in hospital for 21 days. The Kudur police have not arrested the accused persons and instead are allegedly forcing him to strike a compromise with the attackers. Hotteppana Halli in Challakere taluk has been witnessing unrest between Madigas and Gollas for 50 years. The Gollas are allegedly preventing Dalits from carrying on unauthorised cultivation on Gomal lands. Shanmukhappa alleged that his brother Jagadish was killed in the presence of the police. But, the Challakere police failed to act. H.N. Shivamurthy, district in-charge of the Dalit Liberation Human Rights Forum-Karnataka, demanded that Hotteppana Halli should be declared a Dalit village and the Dalits be given land.. The list of atrocities on Dalits goes on. Barbers reportedly refuse to shave Dalits, numbering around 700 in Kestur village in Yelandur taluk. Hotels serve food on paper to them. R. Manohar of the South India Cell for Human Rights, Education and Monitoring alleged that the Superintendent of Police, Bangalore Rural District, had failed to reply within four weeks to the notice issued to him by the National Human Rights Commission on July 19, 2007. The notice was issued for police failure to act on the cell's complaint that Dalits in Narayanaghatta, Muthanallur, Halechandapur, Singena Agrahara and Yedanahalli in Attibele police station limits were assaulted by the upper caste in July.
[ZESTCaste] Re: [indiathinkersnet] Fwd: Re: Fwd: An Appeal For Chithralekha Rehabilitation Committee, Kannur, Kerala (Sent For Approval) To Be Released By Prominent Signatories
The question of chitralekha raise serious issues related to the caste and non dalit patriarchy.Unforutnately,Kerala sufferes from the lack of dynamic-anti-caste counter hegemony.Most of the writings and lamentations on the chitralekha should be seen in the context of post-Hague declaration.The mainstream social science oeuvre on dalit women's question also abound with hackneyed expresssions related to the gender dimensions within the dalits.The intellectual subordination of thw non-dalit women on the question of dalit women should be checked by the dalit intelligentia.Chitralekha and her oppression redefine the foundational celebrations related to the Kerala model development.The oprression of the dalit women like Rajni.S.Anand,Neethu and Chitralekha debunk about the current cum superficial deconstruction about the Kerala women.It is rare to find out the above mentioned women's voices in the brahmanic cum epistemic spaces of the discourses related to the so called dominant Malayalee women. "C.K. Vishwanath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note: forwarded message attached.
[ZESTCaste] Dalits to organize ‘Dhikkar Rally’ to mark 1 year of Khairlanji incident (News)
http://www.indiadaily.org/entry/dalits-to-organize-dhikkar-rally-to-mark-1-year-of-khairlanji-incident/ Dalits to organize 'Dhikkar Rally' to mark 1 year of Khairlanji incident Pratyush | 3 hr. ago On September 29, several Dalit organisations across Maharashtra have planned to organize a 'Dhikkar rally' in Bhandara just to mark the 1st anniversary of the murder of four members of a Bhaiyalal Bhotmange at Khairlanji village. On September 29, 2006, four members of the dalit family were reportedly massacred in Kherlanji village in Bhandara, near Nagpur in Maharashtra. The incident was reported first in some Marathi daily and the mainstream media did not provide any space to this incident till October first week. Some political parties had organised a protest but it remained a mere ritual. DNA had reported about the incident on October 7 that Surekha, 44, and her daughter Priyanka, 18, were beaten and gang-raped in front of villagers for an hour before they fell dead. According to the report, Surekha's sons, Sudhir and Roshan Bhotmange, were murdered in the same incident on September 29. Bhiyyalal, the head of the family, had managed to save his life when his family was attacked. Later, online media exposed the matter that led it to the nationwide protests. [1], [2] Now, several Dalit organisations has decided to hold a rally in Bhandara and more than 30,000 people are likely to attend the gathering on September 29. According to the report, a a Dalit cultural front from Mumbai is the main organiser of the rally. The Khairlanji incident had even given a chance to the various divided Dalit groups to be united against the state government's poor action taken in this matter. Later, Naxalites had even taken keen interest and even issued warnings to deliver justice to the perpetrators of the crime. At present, a fast-track court in Bhandara is hearing the case. Bhandara District Collector S M Sarkunde said that he was unaware of any proposed rally. He said: We get to know about it only through newspapers. Protests may be held, but we do not think there is any reason for additional security.
[ZESTCaste] Dalit women in Kerala
The question of chitralekha raise serious issues related to the caste and non dalit patriarchy.Unforutnately,Kerala sufferes from the lack of dynamic-anti-caste counter hegemony.Most of the writings and lamentations on the chitralekha should be seen in the context of post-Hague declaration.The mainstream social science oeuvre on dalit women's question also abound with hackneyed expresssions related to the gender dimensions within the dalits.The intellectual subordination of thw non-dalit women on the question of dalit women should be checked by the dalit intelligentia.Chitralekha and her oppression redefine the foundational celebrations related to the Kerala model development.The oprression of the dalit women like Rajni.S.Anand,Neethu and Chitralekha debunk about the current cum superficial deconstruction about the Kerala women.It is rare to find out the above mentioned women's voices in the brahmanic cum epistemic spaces of the discourses related to the so called dominant Malayalee women. - Forgot the famous last words? Access your message archive online. Click here.
