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Untouchability in Urban India, Rural India, and All over Indian Social Attitude
In 2006, the Untouchability in Rural India was published. The survey of 565 villages in 11 states showed that the untouchability is practiced in various forms and sites in the states. The Navsarjan…
Theft in Caste System
When Prof. Kancha described Bania capitalism in India as social smuggling, the Banias in South threatened with violence and death threats. He had to undergo self-imposed house arrest. The word he u…
Hinduism was Born out of the Philosophy of Inequality
Hinduism was born out of a philosophy that stated that God created human beings unequal. This thesis was propounded in the Rig Veda itself. In this process the country and the people who suffered m…
“वर्ण व्यवस्था” शीर्षक नामक पुस्तक के अनुसार गांधी द्वारा वर्णव्यवस्था की व्याख्या
1925 में गुजराती भाषा में “वर्ण व्यवस्था” शीर्षक नामक पुस्तक के अनुसार गांधी द्वारा वर्णव्यवस्था की व्याख्या –
1- मैं विश्वास करता हूँ कि वर्णों का विभाजन जन्म के आधारित है।
2- वर्णव्यवस्था म…
गांधी के वर्णव्यवस्था पर विचार
1921-22 का गुजराती पत्रिका “नवजीवन” में गांधी का संपादकीय लेख, जिसमें गांथी के वर्णव्यवस्था पर विचार –
1- मुझे विश्वास है हिन्दू समाज जो आज तक खड़ा रहने में समर्थ हुआ है तो इसलिए क्योंकि वो वर्ण…
Caste Addiction of Indians
The human beings can get addicted to anything: substance, people, ideas, and emotions, to name a few. Why our mind addicted is largely due to the nature of mind that tries to create cyclical patter…
Why Do We Need Caste Based Reservations and How Long?
Does India need caste based reservations? Of course YES..when I say so, one would ask me, why? Some would also argue that they are being denied equality in education, employment because of these re…
Beware of Those Claiming ‘Gandhi Against Caste’ and Gandhism
At the outset, it is necessary to state that some Gandhists have conjured up a conception of Gandhism which is purely imaginary. According to this conception, Gandhism means a return to the village…
The “Great Game” of Language and the “Caste System”
What makes human beings different from the other animals is language and the ability to use the symbols at the higher level of abstraction. The varying degrees of abstractions create the methods to…
What is Lower Middle Income Country and Why India is?
India is classified by the World Bank as the “lower middle income” country. It comes in the same category of our neighbour Pakistan. What is lower middle-income country and why India is one of thos…
Foundation For Human Horizon – End Caste Discrimination by 2030: A Call of Action to United Nations
In the 1940s, Dr. Ambedkar contacted Du Bois to inquire about the National Negro Congress petition to the U.N., which attempted to secure minority rights through the U.N. council. In a letter dated…
Which Is Worse – Slavery Or Untouchability? – Dr. Ambedkar’s Own Words
Dr. Ambedkar has dealt with the subject of Slavery and Untouchability in chapter 3 & 8 of Vol. 5 of this series, under the caption-‘ Roots of the Problem ‘ ‘ Parallel cases ‘.
We have however no…
Caste System Remains the Biggest Threat to Democracy
Despite a great threat to their own existence inside the JNU campuses which is being ‘cleaned’ to maintain Brahmanical hegemony (it was always there but in a better ‘coordinated’ and sophisticated …
What Is In The Name? Everything Is In Surname
Rose will smell the same by any other name. Thus Shakespeare renders words meaningless in terms of identifying the object in the world. But he is also aware of how words and plays on words can crea…
Reality of Gudi Padwa, festival of upper castes' exploitation of lower castes women
On first or second Saturday coming after the Hindu New Years Day (Gudhi padawa), the devadasis, who are mostly dalitbahujans, were openly sexually enjoyed in public, about hundred years ago. This i…