Web StoriesCaste-Based Violence And More: 12 Accounts To Follow To Know More About Dalit Voices In India
If you’ve been following the news, you know about the horrific Hathras case. A 20-year-old Dalit girl was raped and tortured by four upper caste men while she was working out in the fields. Two weeks after the attack, she died in a hospital in Delhi. The family was barred from attending her last rites. Instead of being allowed a funeral, the girl’s body was burnt by the cops in the dead of the night. The act would have gone unnoticed and been covered up, had it not been for a few courageous journalists who recorded the burning as it happened. Later the same day, another such case emerged from Balrampur, also in Uttar Pradesh. The common factor here, apart from the sickening violence, was the victims’ caste. They were both Dalit. Why is this important to highlight? Because caste-based violence and discrimination is a horrible reality of India, even in the 21st century.
I do not have the knowledge or the experience to talk about what Dalits go through in India. What I do know is that it’s time to listen to the people who have been talking about the gaps in our legal system, the discrimination they face because of their caste, and why the feminist movement in India will always be incomplete if it doesn’t take the effect of caste, gender and religion-based discrimination on women into account.
If you too want to know more about Dalit voices in India and what you can do as a privileged Indian, here are the people and pages that we recommend you follow.
1. Dalit Desk
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2. Dalit Camera
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3. Priyanka Paul
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4. Suraj Yengde
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5. Dalit Feminist
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6. Dalit Feminism Archive
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7. Dalit Diva
From #Khairlanji to #Hathras where are we in the fight to defend #Dalit life and #Dalit femmes? We do not need more reports. We do not need more films. We do not need more panels. We do not need debates. We do not need anthologies, Instead dominant castes #endcasteapartheid.
— Dalit Diva (@dalitdiva) September 29, 2020
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8. Christina Dhanaraj
We must not be investing our labour or time in establishing why crimes against Dalit women are caste crimes. It’s a given. Savarnas cannot continue to determine the direction of Dalit discourses. Our women are dying; our focus must be on justice. Not on rebuttals.
— Malarăsculat 🧚🏾♀️ (@caselchris1) September 30, 2020
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9. Meena Kandasamy
#DalitLivesMatter#JusticeForManisha#RIPManishaValmiki pic.twitter.com/X6Bbyi55YE
— meena kandasamy || இளவேனில் (@meenakandasamy) September 30, 2020
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10. Chandra Shekhar Aazad
आज देश में न संविधान सुरक्षित है न दलित। जो कौम अन्याय अत्याचार के खिलाफ आवाज नहीं उठाती वो लाशें उठाती है। दलित समाज को अब अपनी सुरक्षा स्वयं करनी पड़ेगी। तैयार रहें #DalitLivesMatter
— Chandra Shekhar Aazad (@BhimArmyChief) September 30, 2020
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11. Dalit Women Fight
“It’s time we acknowledge the dual marginalisation and discrimination faced by Dalit women is a harsh reality in our society” – #DALITWOMENFIGHT‘s @dalitactivist in conversation with @GaonConnection. https://t.co/D1gYjGP5vz
— DALIT WOMEN FIGHT! (@dalitwomenfight) September 30, 2020
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12. Khabar Lahariya
#हाथरस_गैंगरेप मामला जाति आधरित मुद्दा क्यों न बने? ताकि दलित समाज जाग न जाए अपने हक़ और अधिकार के प्रति?
रिपोर्टिंग- ब्यूरो चीफ @klmeera #HathrasHorror #Hathras pic.twitter.com/oYLIizi0PB— Khabar Lahariya (@KhabarLahariya) September 30, 2020
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This case is not likely to change the system of caste and power dynamics that have plagued India for centuries. But maybe now people will talk about it, enlighten themselves, and recognise that being blind to caste is not the same as being against casteism.
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