caste together – yogatoh http://yogatoh.zarinblog.ir یک سایت زرین بلاگ دیگر Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:31:15 +0000 fa-IR hourly 1 equally possible that a weaving community elsewhere http://yogatoh.zarinblog.ir/2019/02/12/equally-possible-that-a-weaving-community-elsewhere/ http://yogatoh.zarinblog.ir/2019/02/12/equally-possible-that-a-weaving-community-elsewhere/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:31:15 +0000 http://yogatoh.zarinblog.ir/?p=13 Note how lessons of intersectionality are so hard to learn that it is possible to be both Dalit and queer and ask which of these forms of outside-ness is more difficult, and when. It is possible that a weaving community elsewhere may not have these; and equally possible that a weaving community elsewhere may not […]

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Note how lessons of intersectionality are so hard to learn that it is possible to be both Dalit and queer and ask which of these forms of outside-ness is more difficult, and when. It is possible that a weaving community elsewhere may not have these; and equally possible that a weaving community elsewhere may not form part of the Scheduled Castes, but belong, rather to the other backward classes list. For instance, a sociologist may look for demographic differences; a political scientist may begin with electoral representation.ThePrint is publishing articles on Dalit issues as part of Dalit History Month. In their multilingual accounts (made available by translators), we encounter an India that the urban upper-caste readers choose to ignore, or a definition of India we would rather not learn.Reading Dalit literature, we encounter an India that the urban upper-caste readers choose to ignore, or a definition of India we would rather not learn.

An insertion of a Dalit perspective changes the institutionalised accounts of Sports Towel Suppliers nationalism, colonialism, modernity and the many political movements, just as Telangana and Naxalism. Daya sketches a cartography of Bombay, the kawakhana, and the docks, through the unreliable memories of Dagdu.The question for identities removed from privileged centres is: Which ones will draw less backlash in which context? “I knew I couldn’t be gay and lower caste together.As I say this, two instances of Dalit writing from very recent times come to mind.Sujata Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants .ThePrint’s YouTube channel is now active and buzzing.”My publisher was referring to Angaliyat, Gujarat’s first Dalit novel by Joseph Macwan. In these years, Dalit literature has expanded in more than ways than one. Gidla’s is also a rare example of an account written in English and by a diasporic writer. It is as good, and as inadequate a beginning as any, to imagine the shades of emotions, the silences of the everyday life, and the persistent nature of caste-as-memory lying in both public and private repositories of the nation.

When compared to Angaliyat, from its neighbouring region of Gujarat, the difference between the Marathi Baluta and Gujarati Angaliyat is striking.The body of Dalit literature is produced by those among the community who have found it possible to write and publish, coming from different sub-castes and regions and ideological hues.Read more from ThePrint’s Dalit History Month archives.An earlier and even more pioneering work, Baluta (1978) by Daya Pawar turns more inward than Angaliyat.Written as a series of letters to ‘P’, who is a Savarana and ‘bhadralok’ from Calcutta’s intellectual-academic circles, the queer-Dalit sender of letters brings to him, and by implication to us, the upper-caste readers of this English writing, a universe marked by the fragilities of sexuality and the impermeability of caste.

The publisher-friend’s observation has stayed with me as a guiding question: What might be the regional/class/gendered variations in the telling of a Dalit life?Since Angaliyat, the Vankars of Gujarat have had more opportunities of livelihood and education, partly through the textile mills, and in some areas, the influence of Christianity. The immediacy and contemporary nature of Dhrubo Jyoti’s questions, Gidla’s diasporic and English-writing position, and Byapari’s account of a city we thought we knew, characterise new shifts in the Dalit discourse — shifts in which the body and range of expressions have increased, even as legislative and social transformation remain chequered.Are these also the differences of svabhava, as in the regional nature and histories of the place, or individual temperament? Well, even within the same region, differences between two Dalit groups may be as irreconcilable as those between the Savarnas and the Dalits.10Shares.“Our stories must wrench our own hearts into narratives, preferably in monochrome. I had submitted its English translation, and the publisher was comparing it with English translations of Dalit stories she was receiving from other regions.There can be different ways of asking the same question on the diversity of writing about the Dalit life, I suppose.“Your Dalits seem to eat ghee and kansar, you should hear some of the other Dalit stories, there’s sheer starvation.

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