Thursday, March 28, 2024

Topic: Casteism in India

Guna brutality: Quash FIR against Dalit family and book Police, demands Dalit women group

All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) has urged Madhya Pradesh Government to revoke the FIR filed against the Dalit family who was brutally beaten up by Madhya Pradesh Police at the cant area in Guna district during an anti-encroachment drive on 14 July 2020.

MP Police brutality on Dalit family: BJP Govt faces flak, removes Collector, SP

A Dalit couple who allegedly attempted suicide in front of their children and police officers on seeing a JCB machine crush their standing crop was brutally assaulted by the policemen in Madhya Pradesh's Jagatpur Chak area of Guna district on Tuesday.

Ex army-man Arjun Mishra raped, killed our daughter, say Bihar Dalit parents

"My daughter was murdered after being raped by retired army-man Arjun Mishra", said Ashok Paswan, father of 14-year-old minor Dalit girl whose dead body found in an orchard at Pator village of Darbhanga in Bihar on Wednesday.

Thinking beyond identity politics; seeking anti-caste emancipatory politics in Islam

. The politics of identity is about the politics of belonging, and limiting someone and their voices to their caste identity, caste people and closed caste circles delegitimizes the potential of belonging to an emancipatory faith or pursuit of a new identity where they can belong with all kind of acceptance.

How does Black Lives Matter translate into India?

Physical violence on Dalits are both direct and indirect, someone dies in a gutter as enforced caste occupation while the others get killed for small transgressions of caste rules, ranging from “honor killing” to caste massacres.

Delhi pogrom: ‘Should we place toilet cleaners on pedestal?’ Kapil Mishra delivered casteist speech, claims eyewitness

In a police complaint in relation to the Delhi violence, the complainant claimed seeing BJP leader Kapil Mishra and his followers take part in the casteist abuses along with Islamophobic slogans in Kardampuri in northeast Delhi.