Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Social(ChapterIII) THE ROCK ON WHICH IT IS BUILT Hindu Society is a house of Castes. Hindus are not a people. They are the aggregates of groups of people formed into castes. This is its peculiarity. This is what has struck the stream of foreigners who have visited India in the …
Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Social(ChapterII)
Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Social(ChapterII) THE HOUSE THE HINDUS HAVE BUILT I Is there any thing peculiar in the social organisation of the Hindus ? An unsophisticated Hindu who is unaware of investigations conducted by scholars will say that there is nothing peculiar, abnormal or unnatural in the organisation of the society to which …
Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Social
Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Social ________________________________________________________________ Contents Chapter 1 : Civilisation or felony Chapter 2 : The house the hindus have built Chapter 3 : The rock on which it is built Chapter 4 : Touchables v/s untouchables Chapter 5 : The curse of caste
The disappearance of two Dalit students in Mahabubnagar
Raise your voice against the disappearance of two Dalit students in Mahabubnagar! Report filed by Karthik Navayan The details of the case are that on 15th August, 2005, the CPI (Maoist) party killed one sitting MLA, Chittem Narsi Reddy of Makthal constituency, in Mahabubnagar district. In this case, the police of Mahabubnagar started harassing the …
The Problem of The Rupee: Its Origin And Its Solution (History of Indian Currency & Banking)
THE PROBLEM OF THE RUPEE: ITS ORIGIN AND ITS SOLUTION (HISTORY OF INDIAN CURRENCY & BANKING) _____________________________________________________________________________________ B. R. AMBEDKAR Sometime Professor of Political Economy at the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, Bombay. LONDON P. S. KING & SON, LTD. ORCHARD HOUSE, 2 & 4 GREAT SMITH STREET WESTMINSTER 1923 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY …
Dalit women’s aspirations brought home impact of ‘double discrimination’
Emily Esplen visited a community in Dhaka where inspiring community organisers are showing change is possible. When I met members of the Dalit Women’s Forum in Dhaka last month, they told me about the changes they want to see in their lives and communities. They want their daughters to go to school and stay in …
11 Supreme Court verdict on harassment of tribal woman
It was believed at one time that Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India. That view has since been considerably modified. Now the generally accepted belief is that the pre-Dravidian aborigines, that is, the ancestors of the present tribals or Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes), were the original inhabitants.
Hellhole hostels
Adi Dravidar students in Chennai bring the city to a halt to highlight the abysmal conditions in their hostels.Students residing in government-run Adi Dravidar hostels block the arterial Anna Salai in Chennai on December 21. The blockade continued for more than four hours.
‘The Hague Declaration on the Human Rights and Dignity of Dalit Women’
The Hague, 21 November 2006 WE, the participants of the Hague Conference on Dalit Women’s Rights, held in The Hague on 20 and 21 November 2006, after deliberating upon the issues of discrimination, violence and impunity against Dalit women, adopt this Declaration on the Human Rights and Dignity of Dalit Women. In South Asia – …