#Dalit community

[rightnewshindi]

प्रयागराज में दिल दहलाने वाली घटना: दलित युवक की हत्या के बाद शव जलाने की कोशिश, 6 लोग हिरासत में

Uttar Pradesh News: प्रयागराज के यमुना नगर में एक ऐसी वारदात सामने आई है, जिसने इंसानियत को झकझोर कर रख दिया। करछना थाना क्षेत्र के इटौरा गांव में एक दलित युवक की कथित तौर पर हत्या कर उसके शव को जलाने की कोशिश की गई। इस घटना ने स्थानीय समुदाय में आक्रोश और दुख की लहर दौड़ा दी है। पुलिस ने मामले में त्वरित कार्रवाई करते हुए छह लोगों को हिरासत में लिया है और जांच शुरू कर दी है। घटना का…

[thehansindiaseo]

Aithabathula makes a triumphant return

Aithabathula Ananda Rao, a prominent leader from the Dalit community and an Ambedkarist, has made significant strides in his political career with the TDP. Starting from local politics, he advanced to district levels before contesting his first election for the Amalapuram constituency in 2009. Despite his initial defeat, Ananda Rao’s persistence paid off as he contested four elections, winning two and losing two.

[banglakhobor]

অর্ধশতক ধরে নিষেধাজ্ঞা ছিল ভারতের এই গ্রামে, পুলিশি নিরাপত্তায় অবশেষে মন্দিরে ঢুকলেন দলিতরা

চেন্নাই: এই ভারতেই রয়েছে আরও একটি ভারত। প্রায় নিত্যদিনই প্রমাণ মেলে তার। এবার প্রমাণ মিলল তামিলনাড়ুতে। প্রায় অর্ধশতক ধরে লড়াই চালিয়ে যাওয়ার পর, বুধবার সেখানে মন্দিরে প্রবেশের অধিকার পেলেন দলিত সম্প্রদায়ের মানুষজন। তবে খোলা মনে দর্শন হল না। পরিস্থিতি উদ্বেগজনক বুঝে পুলিশি নিরাপত্তা দিয়ে মন্দিরে প্রবেশ করতে হল তাঁদের। সেই খবর ছড়িয়ে পড়েছে মুখে মুখে। (Viral News) তামিলনাড়ুর তিরুআন্নামালাই জেলার…

[papenathys]

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[dailyanarchistposts]

We have been debating tirelessly on different ways to abolish caste and other social evils which permeate the society that we have today. Raising voices against oppression, forming political parties and contesting in elections and also trying to force the government to form and implement policies which will give the Bahujans their fundamental rights. We have come a long way through decades of struggle in gaining rights, but the present political scenario of the country is not looking hopeful to the Bahujan aspirations for breaking away the shackles of caste.

With the diluting of labour laws and enabling state sanctioned exploitation of Bahujan labour, implementation of NEP which further marginalize the Bahujan children and extinguish their hopes of upward social and economic mobility, a proposed EIA which will rob the Bahujans and Adivasis of their land and livelihood, implementation of CAA and NRC to deprive the status of citizenship, privatization of key public utilities and destroying the already weakened public healthcare system, the government is openly showing its motives as a corporate stooge which dances to the whims of Adani, Ambani and other Brahmin Bania masters.

Armed with a grass roots organization like RSS and corporate funded media outlets, they have complete dominance in creating narratives they want the public to believe and they also have a well-oiled IT cell to spread fake news against any dissenters who dare to raise voice against them. Even though there are voices in the society which are raising against these government policies, there is a lack of grass root organization and common vision is sometimes lacking. This doesn’t mean that all the opposing forces against the fascist regime, which is murdering our democracy, should be centralized under one political entity. Instead it is time to think about exactly the opposite, the expansion of the idea of democracy from merely being a political tool used while casting vote once every 5 years to inculcating an idea of democracy in all aspects of life — political, social and economical and decentralization of all aspects of society.

Anarchism is a political philosophy which rejects all coercive and oppressive forms of hierarchy, be it caste, class, color, creed, clan, gender, age, orientation or country. It says that every system of power hierarchy should be scrutinized and made to justify its existence, and any system which fails to justify itself and is trampling the freedom of the individual will have to be abolished. The idea of questioning oppressive power structures is inherent to the idea of anarchism. It prohibits a system where even a party or a few leaders decide on how the society will function. Instead it focuses on decentralizing power to local bodies and communities so that decisions are made at the lowest level possible, thus eliminating the concentration of power into a few hands. It also shares the view that people who are most impacted by policies and decisions are the ones who are most capable of making them.

Historically, humans have developed to live in societies which didn’t have the kind of huge inequalities as it exists today. There is an intrinsic instinct to cooperate and help each other which is visible when a disaster strikes or the self-organization that appears out of nowhere in organic movements against oppression. Solidarity and mutual aid are the foundations of an anarchist society. The “right to well-being” of all human beings, meaning “the possibility of living like human beings, and of bringing up children to be members of a society better than ours” (Kropotkin, 1892). Two of the examples of societies which function close to anarchist principles today are Zapatistas of Mexico (Nacional, 2002) and Rojava in Syria (Democracy, 2018). Extreme corruption, colonization and environmental exploitation forced the indigenous people of Mexico to form an autonomous region where people directly form communities and decide the policies. Similarly, the people of Rojava, battered by the civil war, have formed an autonomous region with direct democratic ambitions based on an anarchist and libertarian socialist ideology promoting decentralization, gender equality, environmental sustainability and pluralistic tolerance for religious, cultural and political diversity based on democratic confederalism. One of the principles of direct democracy is that there are no elected representatives for a fixed term, any member who is elected will just be a spokesperson of the community and can be withdrawn immediately if he goes against the decision taken by discussion and deliberations. The means of production will be owned by workers and run by worker councils. Conflict resolution mechanism and alternative systems of judiciary exists within the community run by the members. There won’t be police or other systems which grant power to one person or group to take away the life and liberty of an individual, rather power will be distributed equally or rotationally which is controlled by the community. During the current times of BLM protests all over the world, it is clear that the police institution is just a tool employed by the ruling and propertied class to control the lower class and there is mass class for defunding the police and transferring the resources to community welfare projects.

We need to look at how these communities organize themselves in the face of an oppressive regime and come up with innovative ways to decentralize and create institutions which we are brainwashed to assume will work only if they are centralized. Decentralized community gardens provide food for the community which is maintained by them. Systems of education, community defense, criminal justice systems, industry and healthcare can be decentralized and we need to focus our efforts in building such grassroot level communities which function along the principles solidarity and mutual aid. We already have systems of mutual aid in our communities, all we need to do is to transfer these tendencies to all the systems we live by.

The Indian social mentality of following a leader or waiting for a savior needs to change. Any system which can consolidate power in the hands of the few can change into authoritarianism. Even if the leaders are benevolent and have the will to serve the people, there are systems of coercion which exist in our society, where economic, political and social power resides in the hands of the few, that they will bind the leaders from doing their duty to the Bahujans. The leaders and parties we look up to keep failing and disappointing us time and again. Now, action needs to be taken directly at grass root level by the Bahujans by creating communities and networks of solidarity and mutual aid and practicing decision making and direct participatory democracy. The culture of outsourcing decision making to politicians or other ruling class needs to stop. This has to start at all sectors of industry, agriculture and services too, and also within family.

We can’t turn to the state for protection anymore as it the state apparatus which is being systematically abused by the ruling castes to exploit Bahujan labour to create their wealth. Along with the efforts to educate Bahujans through social media and other means to sensitize them of their exploitation, effort needs to be focused at the bottom most level to inculcate the habit of participatory democracy at individual, family and community levels, respecting the liberty of the individual. The fight for annihilation of caste cannot be won, unless all unjust power structures in the society cease to exist and power is decentralized and distributed to the people directly, where individuals themselves can organize and make decisions about their life without being coerced or exploited to create wealth for others.

References

Democracy, N. (2018, July 6 ). The Communes of Rojava: A Model In Societal Self Direction. Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDnenjIdnnE

Kropotkin, P. (1892). The Conquest of Bread. Paris.

Nacional, E. Z. ( 2002). A Zapatista Response to “The EZLN Is NOT Anarchist”. Retrieved from The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ejercito-zapatista-de-liberacion-nacional-a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist

[last-tarrasque]

Photo of a dead peasant women taken as a trophy, she was killed by Indian security forces as part of Operation Greenhunt, a ongoing genocidal campaign against Adivasis and Dalits in the name of fighting the CPI (Maoist)

[shreysiwrites]

‘Love Is Love’ Until We Like It: How BL/GL Makes You Uncomfortable Because It Doesn’t Hurt Enough for You

“You should read real Indian queer literature.” The visibly queer man on instagram book review account with a carefully curated bookshelf in the back and a fully developed american accent says. 

I sigh, close my Japanese BL manga tab on google and go to good reads. Trying to prepare myself for the attack. 

There are roughly 100 books in the goodreads “Indian queer books” list and as you browse through it you get confused between them. Because somehow all book descriptions look the same. 

“Nobeen Mukherjee escaped from his abusive family in Kolkata” Okay relatable, “To start fresh, he moved to England.” What the hell? Anyways scroll.

“Kriti Sharma has a complicated relationship with her mother, the societal norms of her community and her growing attraction with Isabella, her classmate.” Sounds like diaspora, I cannot relate.

“Akriti Nair lives in Bangalore and is taking therapy to undo her generational trauma. To cope with her sexuality she writes about a British woman living in colonial India.” POC woman coping by presenting herself as a white woman yeah so so poetic, never been done before.

“Darshan Srivastav goes to Oxford but most of the time he spends cruising in the men’s bathroom of the university.” Okay god what the actual fuck?? 

I keep reading and reach the end of the page somehow none of the blurbs are interesting enough to appeal to me, a dalit queer woman born in the suburbs of west bengal with an atrocious bengali-english accent and a bengali medium education. 

Below the blurbs there are praises after praises, “This book won this prize” “This book is thought provoking, gritty, real and talks about urban queer lives of india.” I tell myself these critics forgot, to tell the story of indian queers, you need to show indian queers and not indian immigrants in other western, liberal countries. 

I close the tab, exhausted already after only 10 minutes of browsing. I go back to the Japanese BL I was reading and now shift to Chinese BL. One of the descriptions of the novel reads, “Luo Wenzhou was a police officer and he met Fei Du 5 years ago when he was rookie, the bright young man had just taken over his father’s company. Now 5 years later when they meet for a case again sparks fly. Amidst the high demand case, can they love each other over suspicion?”

I start reading and keep reading. The novel is translated from chinese and the english translation is written in a non profit website with gazillions advertisements but I gulp down the two character’s chemistry, their love and their journey as they solve cases together. They fall in love and confess with flowers in the battlefield, then walk off by defeating the enemies. In the epilogue they start living together, their colleagues congratulate them. 

It’s short, perhaps two days worth reading but it stays in my mind and I log into twitter, mingle with the same people that read the book and write pages after pages of fanfiction about them meeting again in another setting in my style. 

This would happen once every month. 

I would watch some video about some critique talking about indian queer fiction, then go to the list feel defeated because I don’t understand whatever the fuck was written on the blurb and then beat myself up because I am not reading real queer indian literature. I don’t know anything about real, gritty, thought provoking books or how it is to be a gay indian. 

After years of beating myself up for liking “problematic content” AKA BL manga AKA “fetish content” I have decided to give up on “real indian queer literature” and remain on the “fetish” side of the internet. 

Because guess what, if these fetish manga did not exist, I probably would never come into the terms on my sexuality. Be happy about it or be unapologetic for it. 

However, I wanted to know what made me not want to read the “real gritty booker prize winning” queer fiction and want to read those foreign people falling in love and still relatable and satisfying?

The answer is ‘Suffering”.

The long list of critically acclaimed novels that I abandoned had one recurring theme. “Suffering.” 

It was not only suffering. It was suffering aesthetically. Suffering in a foreign university, suffering in a thirty five thousands per month apartment in an expensive neighbourhood of Bangalore, suffering in a private school hostel where the monthly fees is 1.5 lakhs. 

It gets tiring really quickly, trust me. 

Even that I could forgive, maybe ignore. Because, granted, I have read mangas where the main character is a filthy rich mafia and liked it. The fantasy of being poor and being picked by a billionaire for no reason is not new nor a crime no matter how much these virtue signaling youtube critiques tell you.

It gets tiring when you realise there is no plot. The plot is them being gay and struggling for 200 something pages to come to terms with their sexuality and writing monologues after monologues justifying them being gay. 

The characters are also not much different from each other. No matter how much the writer tries to make them different, all of their characterisation boils into them being gay. Even in the blurb it’s pretty obvious that it’s their lives’ only concern because that’s the only thing that makes them marginalised among all the privileges. 

The characters have no aspirations in life, they have no dream they want to conquer, no exams they want to crack, no dream job whose interview is keeping them up at night. 

Just I am gay and I am fucking sad about it. 

Also the characters, they are either sexually repressed, scared of sex or they are overtly sexual cruising in the men’s bathroom of oxford university. This is a very real blurb I read by the way and this was the only thing that was mentioned in about that queer character and nothing else. 

Now, being repressed or being overtly sexual is not a crime. Cis-Het people are also like that but the in-between people also exist. Who don’t run the moment they feel slight attraction or don’t seek sex in their university bathroom. 

Reading all these, I am kind of glad my introduction to queer media was through these atrocious 90’s yaoi manga. Otherwise I would go through 50 stages of grief and internalised homophobia that would potentially ruin my life because I have no such privilege like these characters. 

These fetish manga gave me the freedom I needed to like women and feel good about it and not cry a river every single day. The community that built around these mangas were the coolest people ever who accepted queerness like it was a walk in the park, literally.

These mangas didn’t go through 50 pages of monologues to justify that they like the same sex, they were just there and reading that made me feel like I belonged here too. That I was not broken like those booker prize winner books suggested. 

Now when I see so called academics call BL/GL especially BL, fetish content and “meant for straight girls”. I only laugh, because I was once a straight girl that read BL as well, until I was not. Like me there are probably thousands of straight girls that read BL and found they were not straight. 

Those who love to put them on moral high ground should know. The rows and rows of “critically acclaimed” books that are trying so hard to be the next “Maurice” or “The Picture of Dorian Grey” that are also fetish content. 

It is the fetish of queer suffering, queer pain, queers being tortured to death. So these self congratulatory people can read it, shed a tear or two and go back to their cishet family. Then post “love is love” in June on twitter. 

Peak activism. 

While the western culture has long moved on from this in the late 00’s, now they grace us with movies like “Red White & Royal Blue” where the conflict is not their sexuality rather their duties towards their countries. The Indian queer scene just cannot get out of the damn bathroom of the Oxford University. 

It’s exhausting, makes me want to never touch anything queer written by any Indian author because I know there will be pain and suffering and I would be miserable at the end of the book and not even in a good way. 

In conclusion, you keep your trauma literature and I keep my fetish content. 

The fetish content that liberated me, the disgusting, problematic content that made me unapologetically love women even living in the suburbs of west bengal with a bengal medium education. 

You keep that 50 pages of internal monologue about being gay about some guy that has no personality but is somehow rich and the only thing that makes them marginalised is that they like their same sex. 

[zomb13s]

Title: The Economic and Social Implications of Belief Systems in a Divided World

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dalit christians? do castes exist outside hinduism too?

Dalit Christians are dalits (former hindus) who converted to christianity. Unfortunately, due to how pervasive casteism is in indian society, conversion did not reduce the caste oppression as they might have hoped, and dalit christians still face both caste based and religious discrimination from upper caste hindus.

A very interesting article from a dalit christian on how they don't feel fully welcomed in either dalit spaces or christian communities, and are eventually betrayed by both the church and the state.

To answer your second question, caste based discrimination does happen in religions other than hinduism - a carry-over of the original hindu caste system which has pervaded religion and seeped deeply into social structures, and caste practices that remained intact even as people converted to different religions. It is still actively practiced among Sikhs, in muslim communities of pakistan and north india, and to some extent among christians in south india.

[mauveliptint]

At the end of the day, men - regardless of their religion, caste, or sexuality - remain oppressors of women within and outside their own identities. Brahmin men oppress Brahmin women (and women from marginalized communities), Dalit men oppress Dalit women, Muslim men oppress Muslim women, Atheist men oppress Atheist women and Queer men oppress Queer women. This oppression transcends ideologies and identities.

[timetravellingkitty]

I saw something on Twitter about how vegetarian (and specifically UC I think) condemning non-vegetarians for eating meat is casteist but I don't see how? I'm genuinely confused, please explain if possible 😭

because upper caste elites have attached moral purity to consuming only vegetarian food and shaming dalit communities for eating meat (especially beef) cause it makes them impure/dirty. dalits and muslims (who also eat beef) are regularly lynched on the mere SUSPICION of eating or handling beef

[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

I see so many hindutva wadis arguing that caste system is a foreign concept and hinduism only had the varna system. As if the varna system was fair? Also isn't caste derived from the varna system? Like brahmins and Kshatriyas became upper castes, vaishyas became obc and shudra were dalits?

I had the impression that the caste system was the documentation of people who already belonged to the varna system. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

It's a little more complicated than that. Currently, we live under the jaati(or jāti) system broadly speaking. When people talk about the caste system in modern India, it is this system superimposed on the varna system that they are referring to. Functionally, the caste system now is a hybrid of the two systems.

The Varna system and the Jaati System are both systems of social hierarchy.

As everyone is already aware, under the varna system, the society is divided into four categories(i.e. brahmins, kshatriyas, vaishyas and shudras) which are hierarchical in nature and mentioned in the various ancient religious texts. Crucially important to this system is the existence of a fifth category, the untouchables(I assume you're already aware of the practice of untouchability) and the outsiders(often termed as "mlechhas", which is now a derogatory xenophobic{and casteist!} slur coming back into popular use thanks to the resurgence of regressive ideas under hindutva politics). These are important to mention because the marginalization of these people was based on them being an out-group i.e. not part of the varna system. People claim the varnas were mutable based on a handful of examples in said texts but I would like to point out that those examples are said to be exceptions rather than the rule.

The Jaati System would be more familiar to you in terms of lived experience. Under this system, society is divided into socio-ethnic endogamous groups or communities and each of the groups have different socio-economic standing in society. The practice of endogamy(marriage limited to within a social group) is important to this system as there is emphasis on one's birth. This is why people say that intermarriage is the most significant step towards dismantling the entire system, but I digress. Prior to the colonization of India, these groups worked on a purely social basis of privilege and exclusion. Villages and cities were(and still are!) segregated based on these jatis. One's occupation was defined by their birth as long as they lived in their specific society.

I would like to emphasize that this system existed and thrived even before the colonisers ever came knocking on the subcontinent's doors. We can find mentions of the system in the historical accounts of both people of the subcontinent and travellers from outside. A study of people's DNA by some scholars claims that the endogamous groups can be traced back to as far as the Gupta Empire(mid 3rd century to mid 6th century CE).

The assertion that the caste system is a purely colonial fabrication is absurd. People point to the term "caste" as being of foreign origin but the term "jaati" already existed and was in use. "Caste" is just another way of referring to jaatis.

Now on to some legitimacy hidden in the nonsensical claims, in the 1901 census of the subcontinent, the British bureaucracy fit the various jatis under the broad classification of the four varnas. It was not a clean fit, leaving many in an awkward position of having been classified wrongly. This is their fault. Not the construction of the system but rather the wrongful categorisation of it.

Officially, there are over 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes in India. Take these numbers with a grain of salt because there are many unregistered castes and sub-castes to this day fighting their own battles of legal recognition.

The castes do not cleanly map onto the varnas. There are many castes who are in the upper strata of the hierarchy in one region and the lower strata in different regions. The system is incredibly nuanced and complex and our current legal systems have not caught up to the sophistication required to deal with it because of the people in power's adamant insistence of ignoring the system simply because they profit off of the oppression of others.

I don't want to add to the miscategorization but I feel like I should correct you on the fact that broadly speaking shudras are classified more under OBCs. (Please keep in mind that this not a clear category and there can be some castes who are said to be shudra who can be other categories as well.) There's much to be said about that because there's no distinction made between the land owner castes and the landless castes. And no, the creamy layer is not a good marker either.

There are some castes(1,108 of them to be exact) who were listed as scheduled castes(SC) in the Constitution of India for affirmative action. This was done to socially reform the country and help those in the marginalized sections of society to gain social mobility. The hope was to remove caste discrimination. As we know, it wasn't successful because caste discrimination still exists and caste based violence is on the rise again.

The term dalit is a contemporary word for the untouchable castes who were and are subjected to despicable discrimination in society.

The reason that I say that we now function under a hybrid of the two systems is that the superimposition of the varna system over the jaati system has been accepted and in many cases, embraced by the people now. You will find many a "upper caste" people proudly flaunting their Brahmin or kshatriya identities. The varna system is now interlinked with the jaati or the caste system whether we like it or not.

The system is complicated and fucked. We should get rid of it, guys. And with your help, you can make that dream a reality.

-Mod S

[thozhar]

Indian tea production has been in severe crisis since the mid nineties largely due to neo-liberal structural adjustments in the Indian economy. The size of the tea industry, which is second only to China and accounts for 25 percent of global tea production, has made this a huge blow to the country’s agrarian economy. The industry employs 1.26 million people on tea plantations and two million additional people indirectly. As such, the economic crisis has had an enormous impact on the lives of local residents. In Kerala where I have been conducting research, there have been eight cases of suicide and twelve deaths due to starvation on tea plantations since 2001. Along with utter poverty and famine, tea plantation workers have faced increasingly unhygienic work environments, shattered social life/community relations, and withdrawal of the welfare measures previously enjoyed. The crisis punctured the isolated environments of the plantations and precipitated neoliberal reforms that closed down production in many areas either partially or completely. While many families remained on the plantations, large numbers of workers who had lived there for more than five generations were now compelled to seek work outside. Some went with their families to either their ancestral villages or regional industrial townships such as Coimbatore and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. These plantation workers have now joined the ranks of the massive Dalit workforce powering India’s unorganised and informal sectors. In joining that pool of workers, Tamil Dalit labourers are exposed to aspects of a caste-ridden society from which they had previously been shielded. The situation of Saraswathi, a female retired worker in her early sixties, illustrates the dilemma and struggles of the workers who moved out the plantations.

— The hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic crisis by Jayaseelan Raj

[thetimesofindia]

PM Modi’s ‘Jungle Raj’ dig at RJD, Congress in Bihar: Top quotes from Siwan rally

In another series of attacks, PM Modi alleged that the RJD, Congress are against the investment and development of Bihar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting, in Siwan, Bihar. (PTI)

Ahead of the Bihar assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday took a swipe at Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo and former CM Lalu Prasad Yadav and the Congress party while addressing a rally in Bihar’s Siwan.

Top quotes from PM Modi’s speech:

📌“Bihar became a symbol of poverty under the rule of ‘Panja’ (Congress) and ‘Laltern’ (RJD)… They looted so much that poverty became Bihar’s misfortune”

📌“RJD and Congress actions are anti-Bihar and anti-investment. Whenever they talk about development, people see locks hanging on shops, businesses, industries and trades… These people have been the nurturers of poor infrastructure, mafia raj, gunda raj, and corruption…”

📌“The NDA government has brought Bihar back on the path of development”

📌”The people of Bihar have ended ‘jungle raj’ created by Congress, RJD.”

📌 “Those who brought ‘jungle raj’ to Bihar are looking for an opportunity to repeat their old deeds somehow. People who are ready to put the brake on the journey towards a prosperous Bihar have to be kept at bay,” he said.

📌”Congress’s ‘License Raj’ kept Bihar poor for a long time… the Dalit and backwards communities were the biggest victims of this. Some families became millionaires and billionaires by showing these people false dreams of being free from poverty…”

📌”RJD insulted Babasaheb Ambedkar, people of Bihar will never forgive its leaders”

📌 “We say ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas’ but RJD believes in ‘parivaar ka vikas'”

The PM launched 28 development projects worth more than Rs 5,900 crore. He inaugurated the new Vaishali–Deoria railway line project, built at a cost of over Rs 400 crore, and flagged off a new train service on this route. Additionally, in a major boost to connectivity in north Bihar, Modi also flagged off the Vande Bharat Express between Patliputra (Patna) and Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) via Muzaffarpur and Bettiah.

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I love reading how upper class Brahmins adapted the culture of so called dalit communities during the middle ages. I love how they bramhinized the culture of the people whom they discarded from their society to save their religion during the Islamic Invasion. The lower class communities created their own gods to fulfill their needs as they were not allowed to worship the gods of the upper class. They created god like Manasa(the godess of snakes), Chandi(a localised version of Durga), Dharma ,Annoda or Annapurna. Even the Radha whom the desiblr adores and worships was primarily a local goddess a local myth, she was not a part of the veda purana tradition of upper class Hindus. The only reason they decided to adopt these local, small deities is because the bramhins felt threatened by the rise of Islam in India . Therefore they decided to include these gods in their upper class stories by creating new tales so they could appeal to the common mass.

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She Was Just a Child: The Hidden Horror of a 13 year old Lower Caste Dalit Girls Ordeal in India via /r/atheism

She Was Just a Child: The Hidden Horror of a 13 year old Lower Caste Dalit Girl’s Ordeal in India This girl isn’t a headline. She isn’t a statistic. She is a child whose innocence was stolen in the most horrific way imaginable — raped repeatedly by 14 men over two years aged between 15 to 54 belonging to influential community. She is also a Dalit. To those unfamiliar with India’s caste system, “Dalit” refers to the lowest rung in a centuries-old social hierarchy, historically branded as “untouchables.” In a civilized society, it should have led to an uproar and what not. But in India, there will be selective uproar when anything bad happens to women of higher caste. If it happens to women from lower caste, its an inconvenience to those in power who will silence the victims. Despite legal protections, Dalits continue to face systemic discrimination, exclusion, and violence. For Dalit women and girls, this oppression is multiplied by gender. It means being poor, invisible, and often unheard — even when they scream. This is Andhra Pradesh, India. 13 year old Dalit girl raped for two years by 14 men belonging to influential community who are aged between 14 to 54. Her ordeal started as perpetrators took a photo of her sitting with a classmate and then they blackmailed her. At present, she is pregnant, admitted at a govt hospital and looking at an uncertain future. In a quiet hospital ward in southern India, now 15 year old girl lies on a bed, eight months pregnant. Her body is bruised by time and trauma. Her eyes — if you looked into them — would tell you stories too painful for words. A Hidden Crime Her abuse began when she was just 13. A classmate, from a higher caste, secretly took photos of her. With threats and manipulation, he and another boy coerced her into submission, raped her, filmed the act — and handed her over to others like she was property. Over two years, 14 men used her, violated her, broke her. These were not just strangers. They were men from her village. Some were neighbors. And nearly all of them belonged to a dominant caste. In villages like hers, caste is power. And power, in the wrong hands, becomes impunity. Nobody Came Her school noticed she had stopped attending. But no one asked why. No teacher raised a concern. The health workers assigned to her village didn’t report a thing. Volunteers from women’s welfare groups said nothing. She had dropped off the radar, and nobody cared to look for her. When she became pregnant, her mother, struggling alone after the death of her husband, finally realized the horror her daughter had endured. She took her to the police. It was only then that the arrests began,17 people in total, including three minors. A Community That Chose Silence What followed was worse. Members of the dominant caste, the very community from which her abusers came, allegedly pressured her mother to stay silent. Read more here: https://oppressed.medium.com/she-was-just-a-child-the-hidden-horror-of-a-13-year-old-lower-caste-dalit-girls-ordeal-in-india-6c2ee6295f58 Submitted June 29, 2025 at 12:47PM by APJONLY1 (From Reddit https://ift.tt/jzAOVp3)