casteism in these sophisticated Times: Excellent Article!

casteism in these sophisticated Times

Excellent presentation of the truth about the minds and mindset of casteists in India.

October 10th, 2010 | opinion

Dileep Padgaonkar’s review of Meera Kosambi’s book on her grandfather and Buddhist scholar Dharmanand Kosambi (Dharmanand Kosambi: the essential writings, edited by Meera Kosambi, Permanant Black) in The Times of India begins a description of his life thus:  ‘Born on October 9, 1876 in a humble Gowd Saraswat Brahmin family in a small village in Portuguese-ruled Goa, Dharmanand, beset with persistent health problems, dropped out of school and was compelled to manage the family’s coconut grove’.

This sentence made me wonder.

Why did Padgaonkar mention Kosambi’s caste?

Scholarly and Revolutionary Writings of Jatirao Phule

Blog: Scholars without Borders Review on Jotirao Phule's Writings:
This blog run by individual writers, scholars and academicians from JNU university write about various issues and topics in India. The following is the review about Great Revolutionary, humanitaian and Abolishnists of Caste system and hinduism of India. Read further......!Selected Writings of Jotirao Phule Author/Editor : G P Deshpande, ed.

"Jotirao Phule (1827-1890) was India's first systematic theorist of caste,
and the most radical 19th-century opponent of it,

• who desired nothing less than
  a complete smashing up of
  its oppressive
  structure.

This volume makes available
for the first time all his most important prose writings in English.

India-Independent? from What?.:-

Will India ever get Independence from Myths, discrimination, filth
and poverty, corruption and looting the poor, lawlessness and injustices?. The answer is probably the most difficult one?.
Here is a thought provoking article by a human rights
activist.

An eye-opener for India

15 August, 2008 - 11:36.

• India

• Babu Gogineni (1)  In an illustrated article on the occasion of India's Independence Day, Babu Gogineni highlights the superstitious obstacles to India's progress and warns of the dangers of departing from the path of reason.

India's 'Progress'

India as a country has today in her 61st year of existence found a place
on the world's radar - dazzling many with the explosive economic growth nearing
that of China's, creating the world's largest pool of persons with technical
training, producing food that can sustain a billion citizens even if there were
no rains for one year, and even managing to get an agreement with the Nuclear
Suppliers Group, while remaining outside the ambit of the Nuclear Non
Proliferation Treaty!

The Warning Bells
The warning bells have been sounded. Increasing rituals.
Greater role for astrologers in private and even public life. Continuing news of human sacrifice from the rural areas, and of lynching of suspected witches. Reinforced caste identities, neglect of
the weak and the helpless ... 

the list is endless. India, despite all the tall
claims of becoming a modern nation is doing nothing about the ever increasing superstition amongst her people and their leaders, nor about the rapidly disappearing human values. This neglect of the scientific temper will prove to be a costly affair for the nation.
Babu Gogineni is IHEU's International Director

FINE SCHOLAR OF THE MONTH- Dr.Ramiah Avatthi

December, 2006
Scholar of the Month
One of the finest and most scholarly article about how the ancient lunatic hindu's came out with caste system is elegantly described in this article. This should be thouroughly read by all the Indians, humanitarians, humanists, human rights activists, those who seek the truth in the world about social and religious pathology must read. Most importantly, every single dalit, Dalits/Ambedkarites must have a copy of this article in their houses. I have read it, and probably read it few more times.
I have been hunting for a truthful manuscript of this quality and integirty to get the true creation of social pathology such as caste system, I must say I found it here, though I must still look for more reading materials, but this has everything to enlighten the ignorant Hindu's. Get a copy or download it to your computer and give it a couple of reading. Knowledge is Power for Dalits, Which our father Ambedkar advocated.

Quotes from Professor Ramaiah & Dr.Ambedkar
VEDAS, and all the scriptures emerged after vedas in one or the other way advocated the caste system. It is argued that MANU, the author of the Manusmriti, should not be held responsible for the creation of the caste system but should be held responsible for the preaching of the sanctity of the VARNA system, which is considered to be the parent of CASTE. In that sense, it is said, Manu can be charged with being the PROGENITOR OF THE CASTE SYSTEM (Ambedkar, 1987, vol 3:25).

DR.RAMAIAH'S profile
Dr. A. Ramaiah has been engaged in teaching and research in the fields of social work and social sciences since 1987. He has been a faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India since 1991. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Dalit and Tribal Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. He obtained his Ph. D. in Sociology (1999) and M. Phil. in Population Studies (1987) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His Masters Degree (1984) was in Social Work (Loyola College, University of Madras), and the Bachelor Degree (1981) in Economics (the American College, Madurai University, India). He has been teaching subjects such as a) Management of non-profit organization, b) Development of the Marginalised sections, c) Diversity and Social Exclusion, d) Globalization and the Marginalised. His recently-completely research studies include i) The Impact of ILO’s PEBLISA Project on prevention and elimination bonded labour in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, ii) Factors responsible for high rate of acquittal in untouchability and atrocity cases: Experiences and responses from Southern Tamil Nadu, and c) Role of NGOs in establishing cordial relationship between the contesting caste groups in rural Tamil Nadu. He has contributed number of articles to reputed journals and books on issues pertaining to the marginalized communities. Ramaiah has widely traveled in Europe, and visited countries such as Zimbabwe, Beijing and Singapore articulating the issues pertaining to the one of the most exploited communities of India, the Dalits. ramaiah@tiss.edu