Re: [ZESTCaste] Fwd: Information needed
Jai bheem Akhilesh, One very good source to begin your search is with the following book which is a very good over-view book(*People of India, National Series Vol. II: The Scheduled Castes/K.S. Singh.* Revised edition. 1999, 1375 p., $66. ISBN 019564822-6.) There is an entry on Malas in this book. Not only that, nearly all SC communities in the country are given brief treatment in this huge book. Best, Chittibabu On 12/07/2009, Siddhartha Kumar mailsiddharth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am akhilesh , I belong to mala-christian(a converted dalit group of andhra) community.First of all I appreciate your effort in educating dalits about present happenings in the society.I often read your mails. I would like to know the economic,social and educational status of my community when compared to other dalits or backward castes in AP or any state in India.I know that my community is progressing quite well but i don`t have any evidence to prove it to myself .I hope you had lot of material about dalits so if at all you had any material in pdfs u can send me.Your help will be highly appreciated. Thanking you With regards, Akhilesh. Moderator's Note: Members may want to respond to Akhilesh's request.
[ZESTCaste] Our Journey - How we know caste: please watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC3C2voZjrA Friends, I happen to see this video while browsing internet. Please watch this video recorded by young researchers trying to understand the caste. The views expressed by the non Dalits in the video are exactly what I hear while talking to people when I was in India or now in US- striking similarities of outright denials. In my experience, the results are the same when you talk to an ignorant illiterate or highly educated living in a western society. They see reservations (which is a big farce due to their ineffective implementation) and never see the social, economical, educational, and religious deprivations. They see them lazy, not the lack of opportunities. They see them as grabbers of opportunities, not their centuries of forceful oppression. While talking to whites about the discrimination they accorded to blacks till 1950s, I do not see whites denying the problem so forcefully. There may be some like skinheads, KKKs, Aryan nationals, but they are not in mainstream. But I observe the contrary in case of Dalit issue Indian non Dalits. I wonder, when a society doesn’t want to recognize a problem, is there a solution to it? Is it ignorance? Is it living in a make believe world of their own making? Is it closing eyes to problems of others? Or is it the desire of keeping them as they were? I puzzle! Thanks Ben -- An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of poor, he was a curse to society. -Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar Please visit www.friendsforeducation.org or www.ambedkarscholarship.org
[ZESTCaste] Fw: Launching the website for our Dalit youth magazine 'Insight Young Voices'
--- On Mon, 6/7/09, anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com wrote: From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com Subject: Launching the website for our Dalit youth magazine 'Insight Young Voices' To: Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 12:13 AM Dear friends, Jaibheem Insight Editorial Collective is pleased to inform you about the launching of the website for our Dalit youth magazine 'Insight Young Voices'. - The URL for the sites are as follows:- • http://insightyv.com/ - The main site will have the latest issues of our magazine and will double up as an e-resource center for Dalit and Tribal students. • http://archive.insightyv.com/ - Top ten past issues of our magazine like Caste and Gender, Caste and Nationalism, Caste and Atrocities have been uploaded. • http://blog.insightyv.com/ - We have also started a blog called 'Round Table' where our 22 member team will be posting their views, analysis, creative writings on different contemporary issues. - Through these sites we are trying to carry forward our magazine's prime objective of creating platforms for Dalit and Tribal students to articulate their views, contribute to the empowerment of our community as well as fight against caste-based discrimination both inside as well as outside the campuses. - The Insight Editorial Collective is highly indebted to the Dalit student group of IIT Mumbai for creating our websites and providing all support for uploading the contents. - We raise our financial support from within the community for all our activities including printing of the magazine. Like all the other small magazines it has been a very tough journey for us too. Therefore next few issues of our magazine will only be available online and can be read on our website. But we promise you that we will keep pushing ourselves to create a sustainable model for our mag and come back with printed version of our mag very soon. - Nest issue of Insight Young Voices to be released on 10th July In this issue we are carrying interviews of 12 noted Dalit academicians, scholars, activists and religious leaders from different parts of the country. These interviews have been taken by a Dalit student group from TISS, Mumbai in collaboration with Insight Editorial Collective with an objective of mapping the various trajectories within the Dalit movement in last 25 years. The second series of 13 more interviews with similar objective will be published in the August 10th issue of our magazine. We request our readers to visit our sites and provide us comments and suggestions to improve our efforts. Thanks and regards Insight Editorial Collective -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer 8. INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [ZESTCaste] Fwd: Information needed
Dear Akhilesh, I just recently wrote an article on Dalit Christians. But I have little solid data. You could help in telling about your local conditions. I'm attaching the article, in solidarity, Gail Moderator's Note: Pls find this file in the 'Files' section of this groups here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/files. The name of the file is 'Dalit Christians' On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Siddhartha Kumar mailsiddharth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am akhilesh , I belong to mala-christian(a converted dalit group of andhra) community.First of all I appreciate your effort in educating dalits about present happenings in the society.I often read your mails. I would like to know the economic,social and educational status of my community when compared to other dalits or backward castes in AP or any state in India.I know that my community is progressing quite well but i don`t have any evidence to prove it to myself .I hope you had lot of material about dalits so if at all you had any material in pdfs u can send me.Your help will be highly appreciated. Thanking you With regards, Akhilesh. Moderator's Note: Members may want to respond to Akhilesh's request.
[ZESTCaste] New file uploaded to ZESTCaste
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ZESTCaste group. File: /Dalit Christians.doc Uploaded by : tellsiddhartha mailsiddharth...@gmail.com Description : Dalit Christians by Gail Omvedt You can access this file at the URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/files/Dalit%20Christians.doc To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/general.htmlfiles Regards, tellsiddhartha mailsiddharth...@gmail.com
[ZESTCaste] UPA failed to use Rs 72,500 crore for Dalits says a Study - is it not interesting?
Posted from http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=197. FYI Thanks Benjamin UPA failed to use Rs 72,500 crore for Dalits says a Study The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may wax eloquent about empowering the downtrodden, but in the last five years it has denied the Scheduled Castes (SCs) a whopping Rs.72,500 crore ($15.16 billion) that should have been earmarked for them under a special scheme. This has been underlined by voluntary organisation National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) after a study of India’s budget documents. Called the special component plan (SCP), the scheme was a strategy evolved way back in April 1975, envisaging that every central ministry must allocate funds from its annual plan for Dalits according to their population. SCs today form 16.2 percent of India’s 1.1 billion population. Therefore, between 2005 and 2009, the Congress-led government should have set aside Rs.129,000 crore for Dalits. But as much as Rs.72,500 crore was not earmarked, the NCDHR has pointed out. “The figures of allocation are a mute witness to the history of denial of exclusion. It is not only for the last five years; this trend is observed for the last 28 years since the inception of the special component plan in 1979-80,” states the NCDHR. It points to the allocations in the interim budget of the UPA government in February. “Out of 75 ministries and their departments, only 16 have allocated funds under the SCP. Out of these, nine ministries have allocated token amounts below five percent. Labour and employment, science technology, bio-technology, panchayati raj and textiles are some of the examples,” says the study. But the NCDHR concedes that human resource development, social justice and empowerment, rural development, women and child development and health ministries did make allocations according to the Dalit population. The SCP came into being in 1979-80 and only Rs.433 crore had been spent on SCs and Scheduled Tribes (STs) together in the 30 years before that. According to the Planning Commission guidelines, these funds cannot be diverted for any other purpose. The ruling Congress and its UPA allies that spoke of the common man in the run up to elections allocated Rs.15,280 crore for SCs in its interim budget in February while it should have set aside Rs.34,413 crore for this fiscal, says NCDHR. “This is even lower than last year’s allocation,” points out the study. “While the total increase in the plan outlay is 15.74 percent, it is unacceptable that at this critical time of financial crisis, the amount for the socially and economically vulnerable sections is drastically reduced. The amount denied is 55 percent this year!” -- An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of poor, he was a curse to society. -Babasaheb Dr B R Ambedkar Please visit www.friendsforeducation.org or www.ambedkarscholarship.org
[ZESTCaste] Mayawati delaying chargesheet in DA probe against her: CBI
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-India-Mayawati-delaying-chargesheet-in-DA-probe-against-her-CBI/articleshow/4769343.cms Mayawati delaying chargesheet in DA probe against her: CBI PTI 12 July 2009, 05:09pm IST NEW DELHI: CBI has accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of being responsible for the delay in filing its chargesheet in the disproportionate assets case registered against her and also for making baseless charges of harassment and humiliation. In a 12-page affidavit, the CBI has informed the Supreme Court that on its part it had completed its probe in the DA case against the BSP supremo and her relatives. ...it is the petitioner, who does not want conclusion of the investigation and at the same time is baselessly alleging harassment and humiliation due to ongoing probe. The so-called delay in conclusion of the probe of the case has been caused by the petitioner herself, the CBI said its counter affidavit in the court. The matter which was listed for hearing on July 13 has been adjourned for two months after Uttar Pradesh's Additional Advocate General Shail Kumar Dwivedi yesterday told a Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan that the state government would file a counter to the agency's affidavit. The CBI, while giving a point-by-point reply to the affidavit filed by Mayawati in the court, said the petitioner never wanted the investigation to be concluded, which is clear from series of representations filed by the petitioner and her relatives expressing shock. About her claim that a CBI official had visited BSP's Parliament Member Brijesh Pathak's house on or before July 22, 2008 seeking support for UPA government at the Centre, the CBI denied it vehemently saying it was an attempt to malign the reputation of the CBI.
[ZESTCaste] Mere appeal won't do, enact law: Left to PM
http://news.oneindia.in/2006/04/19/mere-appeal-wont-do-enact-law-left-to-pm-1145441966.html Mere appeal won't do, enact law: Left to PM Wednesday, April 19, 2006,16:42 [IST New Delhi, Apr 19: Supporting the Prime Minister's suggestion for job reservations for the underprivilaged in the private sector, the Left parties today demanded legislation to this effect while observing that industry would continue to reject the proposal. Mere appeal to the industry will not serve the purpose as they continue to harp on merit and efficiency, the CPI(M),CPI and Forward Bloc told UNI adding that only the enactment of the law would ensure reservation in the corporate sector. Buzz up!Dr Manmohan Singh at the CII annual Session on Tuesday once again broached the subject of job quotas for the socially underprvilaged in the private sector, while talking about the opening up the labour market, undertaking labour reforms and going ahead with the job reservations. But CII former president Rahul Bajaj alongwith other captains of industry threatened to go to court if the government legislated it. CPI(M) senior leader and polit bureau member M K Pandhe made it clear, unless there is a law, job reservations will not be implemented. Referring to his discussions with the corporate magnates in a meeting with the Planning Commission,the CPI(M) stalwart said they stood for their old argument in favour of efficiency and merit. Mr Pandhe pleaded that this is why the Left advocated the enactment of law. Only then the constituional bodies like the SC/ST Commission and the Minority Commission could oversee the status of job reservations in the private sector and ensure its implementation. CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan said the Cabinet should discuss the crucial issue without further delay and get the new law passed in the Parliament. Mr Bardhan's comment assumes special significance in the wake of the recommendation by the Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, that job reservation in the private sector could be possible by amending the Constitution and bringing in a new law, an issue that the Cabinet should decide. CPI National Secretary D Raja, referring to the commitment to the effect in the CMP, said even though it was' too late, yet the time had come for implementing the promise. Mr Raja also demanded that the government make public the recommendation of the EGM. The Government will have to take urgent steps to ensure policy of reservation in the private sector. Forward Bloc national Secretary G Devrajan said the job reservation in the private sector was necessary all the more because job opportunities were hardly there in the government sector. UNI
[ZESTCaste] Honour killing: Man kills daughter for marrying lover
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/honour-killing-man-poisons-strangles-daughter-to-death/96932-3.html?from=rssfeed Honour killing: Man kills daughter for marrying lover Pawan Bali CNN-IBN FATHER KILLS DAUGHTER: Police say the man committed the murder to save family's pride. Akhnoor: In yet another case of honour killing, a father in Jammu poisoned and then strangulated his 22-year-old daughter to death for marrying a Dalit boy. In a secret Arya Samaj wedding in April last year Seema Sharma – a Brahmin girl – got married to the Dalit boy – Tarsem Lal. Though the marriage was kept as a secret for sometime, Seema finally told her father about it earlier this month when her marriage was fixed with someone else. Seema’s father managed the situation by getting her younger sister married to the boy fixed for Seema but on the same night he allegedly killed her. “The father has said that he poisoned the daughter and then as she didn’t die of the poison he strangulated her to death,” says SSP Jammu Manohar Singh. Police say the father committed the murder to save his family from dishonour because he didn’t want his daughter to live with a Dalit boy. “Out of anger and for his respect he says he killed her,” adds the SSP. Seema's husband Tarsem was hospitalised after he attempted suicide. INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] PIL to include neo-Buddhists in SC/ST category filed in HC
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_pil-to-include-neo-buddhists-in-sc-st-category-filed-in-hc_1273443 PIL to include neo-Buddhists in SC/ST category filed in HC Mayura Janwalkar / DNAMonday, July 13, 2009 2:31 IST Mumbai: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed before the Bombay High Court has sought the inclusion of neo-Buddhists among Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and accordingly increase the number of Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly seats reserved for backward classes. Pointing out that by counting out 6.03% Buddhists in the state, the registrar general and census commissioner of India (RGCC) and the director of census operation (DCO), Maharashtra, have acted in a blind-folded manner and have erroneously counted the SC and ST population of the state to be 10.20%. The PIL has been filed by Swwapnil Bhingardevay, 39, an industrialist who belongs to the SC community. Bhingardevay has stated that by leaving out the 6.03% of the neo-Buddhists, the Centre, state, the Delimitation Commission, GRCC and the DCO have all denied three Member of Parliament (MP) seats and 18 Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) seats to the SC and ST community. Bhingardevay's advocate Pradeep Havnur said that the petition is likely to be heard by a division bench in the coming week. Bhingardevay has contended that the current number of reserved MP seats should be raised from 5 to 8 and MLA seats should be raised from 29 to 47. Calling it a systematic denial of rights, he has urged the court to restrain the government from announcing the date of the forthcoming assembly elections until neo-Buddhists are also given recognition as SCs and STs. He added that if the government continues to hold that the population of SCs and STs in the state is 10.20% against the actual 16.23%, it would mean that the government and its agencies deliberately do not want to adhere to the rights provided to SCs and STs in Article 330 of the Constitution. The PIL also states that if the neo-Buddhists would have been counted among the SC, ST population in 2001 census, it would add to 58,38,710 to the existing 98,81,656 population of SCs and STs. The PIL has also urged the court to direct the concerned authorities of reserve a seat for backward classes in the Karad constituency which has SC and ST population of 43,224 instead of Phaltan which has a greater population of 53,071.
[ZESTCaste] Court rejects plea against memorials
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Court-rejects-plea-against-memorials/articleshow/4764840.cms Court rejects plea against memorials 11 Jul 2009, 0228 hrs IST, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea seeking direction to the UP government to put on hold the ongoing project of installation of the statues of chief minister Mayawati and other dalit leaders in Noida. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam refused to intervene on the ground that such projects were approved by the state cabinet. “If it (project) has been approved by the government, this court cannot interfere”, the bench said when an application seeking to maintain the status quo on the works was mentioned before it. The UP Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Ltd relying to an RTI query had admitted that under the scheme to beautify the Sector 95 park (official ‘address’ of the Yamuna bed in front of Sectors 14A and 15A in Noida ) a Central Park Plaza was being built at a whopping cost of Rs 187.20 crore. It had said that the plaza will have statues of three leaders — Dr B R Ambedkar, Kanshi Ram and Ms Mayawati, among others. The bench at the outset of the hearing said, the application should have been filed before the Allahabad High Court where other matters relating to the installation of statues were pending. “First, you (petitioner) should have gone to the high court where some more petitions relating to it were going on”, said court when advocate Ravi Kant mentioned the application. The apex court had on June 29 issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on Mr Kant’s petition. It had alleged misuse of public funds for the installation of statues of Mr Mayawati, the late Kanshi Ram and that of elephants — BSP’s election symbol — at a park in Lucknow. In his fresh application, the petitioner alleged that the four weeks granted to the state government to reply to the court notice were being used to expedite the works for the installation of the statues. The court, however, said, the fresh application will be heard along with the main petition. Senior advocates Harish Salve and Satish Chandra Mishra appeared on behalf of the state government. The PIL had sought a direction to restrain Ms Mayawati from installing her statues and those of elephants at public places with public fund and demanded a CBI probe into the misuse of state exchequer. Mr Kant had submitted that the information gathered through RTI disclosed that 60 statues of elephants were being installed by Uttar Pradesh government at a cost of Rs 52.20 crore at public places by utilising state funds. The PIL alleged that spending crores of rupees to “falsely glorify” leaders in a state like Uttar Pradesh, which is part of the so called ‘BIMARU’ states having Human Development Index among the lowest in the country, is a complete misuse of public money. INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to zestmedia-dig...@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:- If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to zestcaste-subscr...@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/ Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:zestcaste-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:zestcaste-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zestcaste-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ZESTCaste] Paswan demands revision of budget allocation for SC/ST
http://www.ptinews.com/news/168473_Paswan-demands-revision-of-budget-allocation-for-SC-ST Paswan demands revision of budget allocation for SC/ST Advertisement STAFF REPORTER 18:21 HRS IST New Delhi, July 11 (PTI) Claiming that the allocation for SC/ST has come down in the Union Budget, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan today demanded that UPA government revise it and made a strong pitch for reservation in private sector. In the union budget for 2009-2010, the budget allocation for SC/ST has gone down even from the last year's budget. The government should revise it, Paswan said giving figures of money sanctioned for different schemes for the SC/ST in the budget. The LJP chief, who also heads National Dalit Front, went a step further and demanded that money should infact be allocated to SCs and ST as per the Special Component Plan (SCP) in accordance with their population ratio as envisaged by former late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.