Articles for Caste Hindus

India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

India election results: Did ‘secular’ parties let Muslims down, too?

Al Jazeera  

Scared of the BJP describing them as pro-Muslim, these parties distanced themselves from the community, analysts say. “They know that a large part of India’s middle class is radicalised to the extent that taking the name of Muslims might harm the fortunes of political parties,” Mohammed Ali, an award-winning journalist based in New Delhi, said, speaking of Gandhi’s Indian National …

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‘Maamannan’: shedding light on Dalits in Dravidian politics
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Maamannan’: shedding light on Dalits in Dravidian politics

The Hindu  

There has always been a long-lasting conjugal relationship between the Tamil celluloid industry and Dravidian politics. Even though Tamil films dealt with many similar topics related to social reforms, the caste conflict between non-Brahmins and Dalits was yet to be fully explored in depth. The recent movie Maamannan was one such significant attempt in critically evaluating the position of Dalits …

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Revenue officials seal Droupadi Amman temple in Villupuram following dispute over temple entry
1 year, 6 months ago

Revenue officials seal Droupadi Amman temple in Villupuram following dispute over temple entry

The Hindu  

Revenue officials on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, sealed the Dharmaraja Droupadi Amman temple in Melpathi village, Villupuram district in view of the prevailing tense situation. The temple is in the midst of an ongoing dispute, with caste Hindus barring the entry of Adi Dravidars into it. The temple was sealed by Villupuram Revenue Divisional Officer S. Ravichandran under Section 145 …

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Book Excerpt: The Lesser-Known Patel's Fight for Inter-Caste Marriage
1 year, 7 months ago

Book Excerpt: The Lesser-Known Patel's Fight for Inter-Caste Marriage

The Quint  

Mitta's book is a legal history of caste discrimination and caste reforms in the colonial and postcolonial India.) His more famous younger brother, Vallabhbhai Patel, India's first deputy prime minister, has been posthumously appropriated by Hindu nationalists. Tabled in the Imperial Legislative Council on 5 September 1918, the bill boldly went where no one had gone before, the final frontier …

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I will not die as a person who calls himself a Hindu: Ambedkar
1 year, 8 months ago

I will not die as a person who calls himself a Hindu: Ambedkar

The Hindu  

On October 13, 1935, B.R. In the first English-language biography of Ambedkar, Dr Ambedkar: Life and Mission, by Dhananjay Keer, a prolific biographer based in Mumbai, the statement is reported as: ‘I will not die a Hindu’. Nevertheless, as his work was the only book on Ambedkar in English for several decades, ‘I will not die a Hindu’ has been …

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'Social Stigma May Continue Even After Conversion' : Supreme Court Judge Says While Hearing Plea To Extend Reservation To Converted Dalits
1 year, 8 months ago

'Social Stigma May Continue Even After Conversion' : Supreme Court Judge Says While Hearing Plea To Extend Reservation To Converted Dalits

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a bunch of petitions which seek the extension of reservation benefits available to the Scheduled Caste community to Dalits who have converted to Christianity and Islam. Social stigma at ground level When Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, appearing for the Union Government, submitted that the Ranganath Misra Commission had not gone into all the …

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Remembering Vaikom Satyagraha: A movement that spearheaded social reforms in two States
1 year, 8 months ago

Remembering Vaikom Satyagraha: A movement that spearheaded social reforms in two States

The Hindu  

March 30, 2023 06:11 pm | Updated May 31, 2023 03:06 pm IST - CHENNAI Precisely a century ago, Kerala’s Vaikom town which was then in the princely state of Travancore became the epicentre of a historic non-violent movement against untouchability and caste discrimination. Vaikom Satyagraha that lasted for 604 days from March 30, 1924 to November 23, 1925 marked …

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Temple entry in Tamil Nadu: Tracing the struggle for temple entry in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 10 months ago

Temple entry in Tamil Nadu: Tracing the struggle for temple entry in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

This New Year started with hope for Dalits of Eduthavainatham village in Kallakurichi district as they entered the Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple there for the first time on January 2, 2023. The issue in Eduthavainatham regarding temple entry is not an isolated one in Tamil Nadu, which continues to witness struggles, big and small, of Dalits trying to assert their …

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Temple in Salem sealed after caste Hindus prevent entry of Dalits
1 year, 11 months ago

Temple in Salem sealed after caste Hindus prevent entry of Dalits

The Hindu  

Revenue officials sealed Sakthi Mariamman temple at Virudasampatti after caste Hindus prevented the entry of Dalits, on Sunday, December 25, 2022. Following this, revenue officials conducted talks with both sides on October 31, 2022, following which the Dalits were allowed into the temple. The revenue officials conducted peace talks, but caste Hindus were firm in not allowing the Dalits inside …

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Fallacy of the Hindutva project
2 years, 7 months ago

Fallacy of the Hindutva project

The Hindu  

One has lost count of religiousconclaves of Hindu ‘saints’ friendly to the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh calling for violent cleansing of lawful Indian Muslims. The most crucial issue is, why do the common Muslims of today’s India have to pay for the sins of ‘Muslim’ rulers of the past who had friendly and cordial relations with higher caste Hindus? Hindutva zealots …

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For India's marginalised, the precarity of health
2 years, 8 months ago

For India's marginalised, the precarity of health

Hindustan Times  

In India, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Muslims account for a combined population of 450 million, making them some of the largest marginalised social groups in the world. Recent research by demographers Sangita Vyas, Payal Hathi, and Aashish Gupta and Aashish Gupta and Nikkil Sudharsanan, show large and persistent disparities in life expectancy for SCs, STs, and Muslims, compared to …

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Caste-based humiliation in Tamil Nadu village
3 years, 6 months ago

Caste-based humiliation in Tamil Nadu village

The Hindu  

C aste-based intimidation and humiliation has once again raised its ugly head in Tamil Nadu, a State that prides itself in upholding the social reformer ‘Periyar’ E.V. On May 14, three Dalits in their seventies were made to prostrate before the caste Hindu-dominated “oor panchayat” at Ottanendal village near Tiruvennainallur in Villupuram district. The Dalits apologised to the dominant caste …

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Explained | What is driving the Dalit-Muslim divide in West Bengal?
3 years, 9 months ago

Explained | What is driving the Dalit-Muslim divide in West Bengal?

India Today  

West Bengal represents a new wave of religious polarisation in the country. Muslims constitute nearly 30 per cent of the state's electorate and lower castes have similar proportions, with scheduled castes at 24 per cent and scheduled tribes at 6 per cent. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a sizeable section of Muslims supported Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, while majority …

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\'Sangh suffers from Islamophobia but sincerely wants to eradicate caste animosity\'
4 years ago

\'Sangh suffers from Islamophobia but sincerely wants to eradicate caste animosity\'

Deccan Chronicle  

Ambedkar was critical of every kind of religious bigotry, says Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi, in the second part of this interview. How do you then perceive the argument that a Muslim-Dalit coalition, or as Asaduddin Owaisi would say – Jai Bheem, Jai Meem – is the most likely formidable answer to Modi’s Hindutva? But how viable is Owaisi’s argument …

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