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Dalit Caste Apartheid in India is Alive and Well

I think there has been more done to crush this problem in the last 60 year compared to the last 6000. India is a strange nation. Even with this problem, the nation voted in a dalit as the president of India.

K. R. Narayanan

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I am confident this problem will be crushed as more people get accuses to education. Be patient and let India have its cultural revolutions, like America and Europe had the past 100s of years.

 
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Unlike most posters here, I do not personally abuse any one, nor do I personalize the arguments.

As to the readers and contributors of my blog, I have a good sampling of highly informative and often critical posts from multiple Indian writers and activists who care far more about India than some of the many juvenile and hateful Indian commentators on this forum.

Thanks for the concern for the Oppressed in India. May I ask what your opinion is about Pakistani society? Is it the most equal, tolerant , peaceful society in the world? You cannot mask your bigoted view and hate for Indians with your diplomatic words. Look at your own news sites for the officially sponsored hatred for Ahmadiyas , Hindus and all other minorities. Not to mention the news of muslims killing each other in the name of religion and politics. Clean your back yard before smelling ours.

Pakistan Ahmadi man forcibly exhumed in Lahore

Police in Pakistan have forced a family of the Ahmadi sect to exhume the body of a relative because it was buried in a Muslim graveyard.

Officials in the Sargodha district of Punjab province say they took the unusual move after anti-Ahmadi Muslim groups threatened peace in the area.

Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims but a 1984 law barred them from identifying themselves as followers of the faith.

The law also put restrictions on their religious practices.
'Law and order situation'

Shehzad Waraich, a farmer in the Bhalwal area of Sargodha district, died on 30 October and was buried in a shared graveyard designated by the government.

"The police approached the relatives of Mr Waraich on 31 October and asked them to remove the body from the Muslim graveyard as this could lead to a law and order situation," Salimuddin, an Ahmadi community spokesman, told the BBC.

"The family complied with the request and exhumed the body. They have now buried it in a different graveyard reserved for the Ahmadis several miles away from the village."

The police said the family was asked to exhume the body because the burial was "illegal".

"They buried Mr Waraich in a Muslim graveyard, which is against the law," Javed Islam, the Sargodha district police chief, told the BBC.

"Members of the Khatm-e-Nabuwat organisation and some local people approached the police and conveyed their objection to the burial. The objection was within the ambit of the law, so we acted accordingly," he said.
Continue reading the main story
WHO ARE THE AHMADIS?

* A minority Islamic sect founded in 1889, Ahmadis believe their own founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who died in 1908, was a prophet
* This is anathema to most Muslims who believe the last prophet was Muhammad, who died in 632
* Most Ahmadi followers live in the Asian subcontinent
* Ahmadis have been the subject of sectarian attacks and persecution in Pakistan and elsewhere
* In 1974 the Pakistani government declared the sect non-Muslim

* Who are the Ahmadis?
* Analysis: Soft target for militants

Khatm-e-Nabuwat is an anti-Ahmadi religious organisation that acts as a watchdog on their activities.

Mr Islam said that he was not concerned about the moral aspect of the exhumation of Mr Waraich's body - his job was to enforce the law.

Ahmadis in Pakistan are often mobbed and lynched by extremist elements who critics say are encouraged by favourable laws.

The Ahmadi spokesman, Salimuddin, said it was the 30th incident since 1984 in which an Ahmadi body has been forcefully exhumed by the administration to satisfy the opponents of the community.

"The administration always sides with our opponents, and has a convenient argument that they are trying to maintain peace," he said.


BBC News - Pakistan Ahmadi man forcibly exhumed in Lahore
 
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I usually don't add my two cents in threads like this. Seems to me certain Indian posters have an issue with this reality of life in India.

There is a world that is different from what Bollwood projects.
 
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I usually don't add my two cents in threads like this. Seems to me certain Indian posters have an issue with this reality of life in India.

There is a world that is different from what Bollwood projects.

yaa....Like you live in India and we all live in paradise Bangladesh.. How much would we know?
 
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Caste System in India is very dicriminatory though India has this fake image in the world about being a democracy:

Dalit. India. Slavery. Child Slavery. Oppression. Untouchables. Caste System.

 
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Being Called a Hindu is Like an Abuse to me: Dalit Writer​
Meenakshi Sinha

JAIPUR:

"Being called a Hindu is like a gaali (abuse) to me. I use Valmiki as a surname because having one is almost a necessity these days. If you just say Omprakash, it's not enough. People demand a surname as they come from a certain mindset. Caste envelops every aspect of life in India," said Omprakash Valmiki, leading Dalit writer in Hindi, at the fifth Jaipur literature festival on Friday.

Valmiki was one of three speakers at the session, Outcasts: The Search for Public Conscience with P Sivakami, Dalit novelist and political activist from Chennai. Kancha Ilaiah, political science professor in Osmania University, Hyderabad and author of the bestseller 'Why I am Not a Hindu', was the third speaker. Ilaiah is an OBC by caste.

Sivakami maintained that upper-caste Hindus only have a caste conscience and no public conscience. "They lack human conscience," she said. Sivakami resigned from civil services after 29 years of service to join the Bahujan Samaj Party in 2008.

Valmiki, author of celebrated autobiography Joothan (1997), maintained that Dalits continue to be shunned in the realms of culture, literature and the arts. "And that is despite 60 years of independence and numerous laws guaranteeing their fundamental rights," he said. His other works include three collections of poetry: Sadiyon ka santap (The centuries-old anguish, 1989), Bas! bahut ho chuka (Stop it! That's enough, 1997) and Ab aur nahin (Not any more, 2009).

Valmiki is currently working on two novels. One is based in Bihar and the other on the Gohana episode in Haryana (2005) where homes of Dalits were burnt. He is also working on a compilation of Dalit poetry from across India.

"A casteist person cannot write Dalit literature. He will first have to 'de-caste' himself, only then can he give the right picture. A good Dalit writer hardly gets any visibility. In literature, Dalit consciousness is not visible even in the writings of Ismat Chugtai, Nagarjun or Premchand," said Valmiki.

While Ilaiah said Dalit literature is in its nascent stage, Valmiki believed it has matured well in Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi languages. "It's just starting out in Punjabi and Bangla," Valmiki said.

While sharing their angst at the way Dalits remain marginalised, the writers maintained that a collective Dalit consciousness is the need of the hour. Valmiki said that there's segregation in every village in India and that Dalits are forced into ghettoes, to the western side of the village where the sun's rays won't touch them. "Their homes are mostly near drains or at the end of a river which is likely to swell during floods hence making their homes the first to get washed away," he said.

Recounting discrimination of Dalits in Rajasthan, Valmiki recalled an incident where in Rajasthan's village Chakwara, after Dalits managed to gain access to the local lake, the caste Hindus started defecating there and polluting it denying them access to it.

Valmiki said he doesn't need God because 'He' was not with the person who's oppressed and pained. "Are we not his creation? He's appropriated by those who conduct business in his name. "Saraswati is no devi for me because when we were stopped from going to school, she was not with us. For us God is Ambedkar and Buddha because they were with us."

For Ilaiah, denouncing Hinduism was a necessity as he finds it spiritually fascist. "I'm not a Hindu and I appeal to all brahmins that if they read my book, please do so without self righteousness and self pity. The idea is to put a sense of shame and guilt into them."



a bit extreme in my opinion; denouncing religion is wrong and hurts sentiments. Posted more for discussion purposes.


Being called a Hindu is like an abuse to me: Dalit writer - The Times of India
 
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If any one want to know more about hindu indian mentality regarding caste system they should look at this youtube video....

"INDIA" hinduism value of a man "dalit"

 
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Dalits allege social boycott, quit Haryana village - The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: Around 70 dalit families of a Haryana village have left their homes and are camping outside the Hisar district administration headquarters to protest discrimination by upper-caste villagers. Dalits of Bhagana village allege they are facing social boycott.

Police have been deployed in the village to avert a flare-up. The dalit protest is also receiving support from members of other backward communities.

When a low-caste farmer was stopped from entering a village pond by upper-caste men, the dalits bolted their houses and marched to the district headquarters the next day. "On Monday, we decided to finally leave. We have suffered enough," said Satish Kumar, who is leading the protests. He alleged dalits are being ostracized for the last three months.

On Tuesday, a delegation of upper-caste villagers met the deputy commissioner, Amit Aggarwal, and denied imposing a boycott on dalits. "A few people are trying to create a rift," said village sarpanch Rakesh Kumar.

Sparks were first lit in 2011 when dalits demanded free residential plots of 100 square yards under Mahatma Gandhi Gramin Basti Yojana. This was strongly opposed by upper-caste villagers even though 220 acres of shamlat (community) land lay vacant. "Upper caste men distributed this land among themselves. Now, they are forcing us to withdraw a complaint against encroachment of land," said Balraj Satrodia, district president of Bahujan Samaj Party.
 
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