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Singing / thinking anti-caste / By Yogesh Maitreya

By: Publication details: Nagpur Panther's Paw Publication 2021Description: 107 pages 18 cmISBN:
  • 9788195136506 (paperback)
DDC classification:
  • 305.560954
Contents:
01 In Chokhamela's Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present; 02 How Bhimao Kardak and His Troupe Brought Ambedkar in Song; 03 Shindeshahi: Music Is More Important than Philosophy; 04 Wamandada Kardak: Singing a Casteless Republic into Being; 05 Why Songs Are Sabotaged: Dalits and their Music; 06 The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience; 07 Sharad Patil's Radical Aesthetics: Never Lose Sight Of An Artist's Caste; 08 Raja Dhale: A Renaissance Figure in Dalit Literature and Art; 09 Dalit Literature: On Memory or Death; 10 Dalit Women as Active Participants in Ambedkarite Movement; 11 Ambedkar in Dalit Women's Literature and Life; 12 'Mother' Resurrects Lost Humanity in Nagraj Manjule's Poems; 13 From Mahars to Buddhists: The Culture of Protest; 14 Baldwin and I: Beyond Race and Caste; 15 Isabel Wilkerson's Essay on America's Enduring Caste System.
Summary: Non-dalits may find it unbelievable, but death for Dalits is metaphorical. An “untouchable” never existed as a person worthy of respect from society or recognised as a mind. He was simply invisible, except when his labour was extracted, exploited and used for free. Thus it was not very difficult for Dalits from a few generations ago to understand how it feels to remain invisible. This reality has not ceased to exist even today, although it’s forms vary. Not existing for others, not being recognised by others, is a condition of simply not being extant. It is in this sense that death is metaphorical for Dalits. Yet, this is not a normal reality. It is an abnormal condition, an ecology, to use a broad term, that has been constructed by brahmins and all other castes who follow them.
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01 In Chokhamela's Bhakti, Past Transforms into Radical Present;
02 How Bhimao Kardak and His Troupe Brought Ambedkar in Song;
03 Shindeshahi: Music Is More Important than Philosophy;
04 Wamandada Kardak: Singing a Casteless Republic into Being;
05 Why Songs Are Sabotaged: Dalits and their Music;
06 The Casteless Collective: Musicalising Anti-Caste Conscience;
07 Sharad Patil's Radical Aesthetics: Never Lose Sight Of An Artist's Caste;
08 Raja Dhale: A Renaissance Figure in Dalit Literature and Art;
09 Dalit Literature: On Memory or Death;
10 Dalit Women as Active Participants in Ambedkarite Movement;
11 Ambedkar in Dalit Women's Literature and Life;
12 'Mother' Resurrects Lost Humanity in Nagraj Manjule's Poems;
13 From Mahars to Buddhists: The Culture of Protest;
14 Baldwin and I: Beyond Race and Caste;
15 Isabel Wilkerson's Essay on America's Enduring Caste System.

Non-dalits may find it unbelievable, but death for Dalits is metaphorical. An “untouchable” never existed as a person worthy of respect from society or recognised as a mind. He was simply invisible, except when his labour was extracted, exploited and used for free. Thus it was not very difficult for Dalits from a few generations ago to understand how it feels to remain invisible. This reality has not ceased to exist even today, although it’s forms vary. Not existing for others, not being recognised by others, is a condition of simply not being extant. It is in this sense that death is metaphorical for Dalits. Yet, this is not a normal reality. It is an abnormal condition, an ecology, to use a broad term, that has been constructed by brahmins and all other castes who follow them.

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