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In Gujarat’s Sabarkantha, Violence, Discrimination and Social Boycott are Pushing Dalit Families to Flee
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In Gujarat’s Sabarkantha, Violence, Discrimination and Social Boycott are Pushing Dalit Families to Flee

An exodus may be imminent in some Gujarat villages, where members of the Dalit community have alleged they are increasingly facing harassment, intimidation and violence at the hands of upper-caste communities and OBC communities.
“It will happen, if not today, then very soon,” says Somabhai, a resident of Rupal village in Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, alleging that the upper-caste communities do not wish to see their community prosper.
On May 18, members of the Dalit community from villages in Sabarkantha district submitted a memorandum to the Resident Additional Collector at the district office in Himmatnagar demanding immediate intervention and protection from such atrocities.

m.thewire.in
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Caste discrimination and Savarna domination in Kerala: Links to read.

First articles list. I will continue as education series with more articles and posts.

  1. He was called a slum dog: Family alleges caste discrimination after Kerala student's suicide

  2. Authorities in the south Indian state of Kerala must ensure an independent investigation into allegations of police inaction in a case involving the rape and brutal murder of a 30-year-old Dalit woman in Vattolippadi, Kerala.

3. After a caste-killing: Haritha-Aneesh’s story unravels Palakkad’s unseen face

  1. Kerala’s thin veil of progressiveness hides an unspoken Brahmanical oligarchy in temples

5. After a caste-killing: Haritha-Aneesh’s story unravels Palakkad’s unseen face

6. How caste is practiced in Christianity? Kerala’s Dalit Christian writer Aleena opens up

7. 'Why do you need a doctorate?': Dalit PhD scholar recounts abuse from Kerala Uni dean of faculty

  1. How caste discrimination during and after Kerala floods has affected dalits, adivasis
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Navigating Caste Inequality in Kerala: Caste as Present, Hidden, and Denied

Caste presented itself in varying ways in the lives of the students at CREST, and in their experiences at the institution. For students like Ajit, caste was clearly manifested in experiences of poverty and lack of access to opportunities. Economic, social, and cultural capital intersect in lower-caste social positions to create situations of deprivation that subsequently reproduce themselves across generations. In other cases, where economic capital is ample, chains of social and cultural capital may be less apparent, making the effects of caste hidden. Caste may be also deliberately hidden for an individual to pass and avoid the humiliation and discrimination associated with a lower-caste identity. This is the approach that Ajit adopted both prior to coming to CREST and during the program. It is possible, however, for stigmatized individuals to eventually discard performative tactics of passing, and to undergo the more transformative and political journey of embracing one’s stigmatized identity. This is not a process encouraged or supported at CREST. While CREST certainly helps its students learn and implement “soft skills” that will aid them in navigating a competitive job market, the school does not encourage assessment of caste as a systemic and structural issue, an alternative approach that could lead to a more critical examination of power relations. There is promise, however, in the unofficial emergence of critical discussions on gender, spearheaded by female teachers at CREST. Applying a similar approach to caste would help CREST instill a deeper, more political understanding of inequality in its students. This process will help students enact more transformative changes in their personal identification and relationship to caste, and in their future impacts on society.

https://utsynergyjournal.org/2018/04/20/navigating-caste-inequality-in-kerala-caste-as-present-hidden-and-denied/

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Ancient Buddha sculpture found in a temple at Vedaranyam

Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department official K. Vasanthakumar said the undivided Nagapattinam district holds abundant Buddhist traces, anchored by the historical presence of viharas in Nagapattinam town and at Poompuhar. The Umbalacheri find adds another point to what is becoming an increasingly detailed map of the region’s Buddhist past.
K. Birla Thangadurai, State Deputy President of the Buddhist Society of India and founder of Keezhathanjai Mandram, who was present at the site, placed the find within a broader constellation of Buddha statues across the district that remain largely unknown to the public. Among the documented sites: a 4.5-foot standing Buddha at Pushpavanam in Vedaranyam; a 4.5-foot statue at Budhamangalam in Kilvelur; a five-foot sculpture with its head removed at Keeranthi in Keezhaiyur; the current three-foot find at Umbalacheri; and one statue from Velankanni now held at the Nagapattinam Museum.

thehindu.com
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Sorry for language. Just my sadness on death of CPI and CPI M. Pinarayi Vijayan takes over as Opposition leader.

I am google translate the post. Malayalam origin after English.

Pinaraayi played the group games and expelled all the good comrades from the Achuthanandan circles from the party. Then he cheated, stole, took bribes and made money and raised his children and made them rich. He also made the company of all the smugglers and the party became mafia. He made our party a slave to Modi because of the fear of getting caught as a thief and income tax enquiries.

At the same time, the other thief Prakash Karat along with him destroyed the party nationally. When Karat came into leadership, the party was in 8 states. When Karat left, the party was in Kerala and Unda (0).

Now he has destroyed the party, he will let the lotus bloom on the party's corpse. It's disgusting! 🤮

ഇയാൾ ഗ്രൂപ്പ് കളിച്ചു കളിച്ചി അച്യുതാന്ദൻ കൂട്ടത്തിലെ എല്ലാ നല്ല സഖാക്കളെയും പാർട്ടിന്നു പുറത്താക്കി. പിന്നെ വെട്ടിച്ചു കാശുണ്ടാക്കി മക്കളെ വളർത്തി പന ആക്കി. കണ്ട കള്ളക്കടത്തുകാരുടെ ഒക്കെ കമ്പനി കൂടി പാർട്ടി മാഫിയ ആക്കി. വെട്ടിപ്പ് ഇൻകം ടാക്സ് ഒക്കെ പേടിച്ചു ഇയാള് മോഡിയുടെ അടിമയാക്കി നമ്മടെ പാർട്ടിയെ.

അതേ നേരം മറ്റേ കള്ളൻ പ്രകാശ് കാരാട്ട് ഇയാളുടെ കൂടെ കൂടി ദേശീയമായി പാർട്ടി നശിപ്പിച്ചു. കാരാട്ട് കയറി വന്നപ്പോ പാർട്ടി 8 സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിൽ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. കാരാട്ട് ഇയാളുടെ അടിമകൾക്ക്‌ പാർട്ടി കൊടുത്തു മാറി നിന്നപ്പോ പാർട്ടി കേരളത്തിലും ഉണ്ടയിലും.

ഇനി ഇയാൾ പാർട്ടി നശിപ്പിച്ചു, പാർട്ടീടെ ശവത്തിൽ താമര വിരിയിച്ചേ പോവൂ. അറപ്പാണ്! 🤮

english.mathrubhumi.com
u/SubstantialAd1027 — 8 days ago
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A first-of-its-kind module on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership philosophy has been added to the sociology syllabus of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, one of western India’s oldest public universities.

Sociology department head Virendra Singh, who confirmed the development to The Hindu, said the inclusion of ‘Modi Tattva’ reflects the need to examine the Prime Minister’s leadership within established sociological frameworks. He said the module draws on Max Weber’s theory of charismatic authority, previously applied to figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Separately study Modi’s Weber charismatics authority. Primary article of Syllabus

“Weber had found something hypophysical in the cultic form of power – that the people witnessed in the very being of the leader the values which they held to the highest. That is, the cultic authoritarian is consecrated with value to the point that he is that value, which can be called hypophysical power. For example, in the phrases “Gandhi is Mahatma”, “de Gaul is France”, “India is Indira”, “RSS is India” and so on, a certain value comes to be the very individual, or the organisation as in the case of the RSS. Weber found that there are two distinct forms which are a requisite to construct hypophysical power, the magician and the gang leader –  “the two figures of the magician and the prophet on the one hand, and in the elected war lord, the gang leader and condotierre on the other hand”.”

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