Round Table India In this episode of the Ambedkar Age series, Round Table India talks to Dr Manisha Bangar, Vice President, BAMCEF. In the interview, Dr Manisha Bangar talks about a wide spectrum of current issues, and the Mulnivasi Bahujan perspective on them. She explicates the conceptual underpinnings of the Mulnivasi Bahujan movement, traces …
Critical Analysis of Indian Historians’ Writings on Buddhism – Part 1
Ratnesh Katulkar Buddhism is one of the most prominent topics in the study of ancient Indian history. The reason for its presence and visibility in Indian history owes to its existence to a wide time scale traversed during the 6th century BC to 11th century AD. There is no doubt that many special and …
रोमांच, मनोरंजन और ब्राह्मणवादी प्रतीक
Sanjay Jothe रहस्य रोमांच के बहाने मनोरंजन की तलाश करते समाजों या लोगों पर कभी गौर कीजिये गजब के परिणाम हाथ लगेंगे। रहस्य और चमत्कार तो खैर अतिरंजित बाते हैं, सामान्य मनोरंजन के चुनाव की प्रवृत्ति भी पूरे समाज के मनोविज्ञान को नंगा करने के लिए काफी है। किस तरह के टीवी सीरियल्स और …
Rejecting Victimhood, Reclaiming Resistance
Joint pamphlet by BAPSA, SIO, YFDA on the occasion of Rohith’s Shahadat Din [Distributed for ‘Resistance March’ against Institutionalized Brahmanism on 16 January 2017 in JNU, New Delhi] The institutional murder of Rohith Vemula and the enforced disappearance of Najeeb Ahmad reveal that agents of Brahmanical Fascism in universities have selected students from marginalized …
Remembering Dharti Aba Birsa Munda
BAPSA JNU, New Delhi Remembering Dharti Aba Birsa Munda on 15th Nov Remembering the Foundation Day of BAPSA Intensifying Struggle of Justice for Najeeb The class was going on as usual in the German Mission School at Burj, Chaibasa. A teacher named Dr Nottrott repeatedly uttered derogatory words against the Mundas. A boy left …
When Rohith Vemula Meets Jignesh Mevani: Towards a Radical Democratic Imaginary
K K Baburaj ‘Live dangerously’, told Nietzsche, one of the great counter-thinkers in the history of modern philosophy. KK Kochu, a well known Dalit writer and political activist from Kerala, in his collection of articles titled ‘Revolution and Culture’ published in the eighties, attempted to rewrite the slogan of Nietzsche as ‘act dangerously’. Such …
Decoding the Spirit of Castes: A review of Pokala Lakshmi Narasu’s ‘A Study of Caste’
Nidhin Shobhana This book review can be divided into three sections. The first part would briefly try to situate the book and the author in the social and political contexts of Colonial South India (esp. Madras Presidency) in early twentieth century. The second part would discuss the major arguments in the book1. The final …
Building the Idea of India: Conserving Brahmanism and the Brahmanical State? Part III
Continued from here. Pinak Banik Gandhi’s attempt to abolish untouchability in the 1930s without ever questioning the varanshrama dharma is like todays fight against Hindutva without recognizing Brahmanism. Gandhi only created a token group of SC representatives, who were never given any chance to voice their issues, which later Saheb Kanshiram defined as the …
Violence of Brahminism Against Dalits
Jadumani Mahanand The current scenario of Indian society is deeply volatile and violent, instigating gruesome and brutal attacks on Dalits and Muslims. Any concerned citizen will feel anger and frustration, reading everyday about the violence, rape and killings of minorities such as Dalits and Muslims. No method has been left unused, to theorize or …