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Understanding
Caste System
A
Survey of Popular Writings on Caste Violence
A
study supported and sponsored by the Centre for Education and
Documentation, Bangalore, under its Outreach Scholarship programme.
October
2006
compiled
by Dunkin
Jalki
Research Scholar
CSCS, Bangalore
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Abstract
Our
contemporary understanding of caste violence is afflicted to a great
extent by our faulty and unscientific understanding of the caste system
in India. As a consequence, this essay argues, we have not been able to
even understand the nature of the violence in our society, leave alone
finding solutions for it. The nature of the writings on caste, which
this essay ies to analyse, confirms this fact.
The dearth of our understanding of the so called ‘caste violence’ in
our society is evident nowhere as clearly as in the reports produced by
the NGOs and the committees/commissions appointed by the state
governments in India on the atrocities on the Dalits. This research
makes a survey of these reports and other popular writings such as
articles published in magazines, newsletters, and newspapers, and other
documents produced for private circulation by various governmental and
non-governmental agencies. This survey tries to show that in the future
only if we breakup the explanatory cluster called caste theories we
will be able to deal with some of the atrocities and violence in our
society, in a better way.
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