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Frontline Gist:Issue September 2, 2016
Attacks on Dalit in several parts of India by vigilant gau rakshaks and other fringe elements of majority community has led to unprecedented Dalit backlash against historical and contemporary discriminations faced by the community. Contemporary issues: (Related Articles: Mission Dalit gone awry, by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, page no. 5; Vigil and Vigilance, page no. 10; Death of public reason, by Gopal Guru, page no. 19)
• Imposition of majoritarianism • Increasing attacks by cow vigilants • Imposition of Historical perspective and try to limit their role to conventional or caste based work opportunity • Dalits consider that land is critical to emancipation and when one reads Ambedkar & Marx in the context of atrocities, land reforms emerge as the key issue. In India amount of land holding determines caste • Biased role of police i.e. favoring upper caste & people with political clout • Consideration of political parties treating them just as vote bank • No policy change by the governments considering the rising aspirations of Dalit youth • The NCRB Data showed that with Rajasthan accounting just 6% of Dalit population accounted for 17% of crimes against community. MP, Haryana, Jharkahnd also showed huge rise in atrocities between 2013-15 • Dalits complain that social worldview in the country is still taken from the perspective of Hinduvta • Despite of the affirmative action the social, political & economic rise has not been adequate • Increase in discrimination due to affirmative action which has led to identity politics and social stratification • Dalit women are not considerable equivalent • Silence of the governments • Decline in farm & rural income, distinction between skilled and unskilled labor, rural and urban divide has increased the marginalization that has led to cruder atrocities
Death of public reason:
(Related Article: Death of public reason, by Gopal Guru, page no. 19)
• Core Questions a) What constitutes public reason? b) What is “career graph” of public reason, under what social and intellectual conditions does this reason redeem success? c) What are the challenges public reason faces in creating a harmonizing impact on social sensibilities that underline & renew the dangerous forms of hatred stirred by fringe groups even at cost of undermining public reason? • Public reason is the collective search for common ground that can facilitate not only reciprocal interaction but also convert, through its persuasive power an individual wound or atrocity into collective suffering • Public reason leads people to converge on certain basic values such as the intrinsic worth of every human being. • Public reason provides scope within which the issues involving Dalits, women or adivasis or the minority becomes matter of public concern • Public reason demands from people that they keep their individual reason aside & contribute to creating moral conditions that would lead public reason to acquire salience • In expansive sense, public reason is devoid of any hierarchy of reasons, on contrary it involves an attempt to bring one’s own public reason into accord with the reason of other espousing a common point of view for settling the terms of our political life • Continuing atrocities against Dalits & lack of political outrage are indicative of death of consensual common political ground where universal principles such as dignity, self respect & social justice can be affirmed. • Present protests by Dalits after attacks in Una may appear to be small & even amporphous but it is unique, resolute & intensely authentic in essence • The fragmentary impact of caste on the moral sensibility of society is one of the prime reasons for suffocation of public reason • The principle of social justice built around affirmative action, or abolition of untouchability built around value of dignity, has to be defended or shared not for different reasons. • The politics of insulating the dalit questions from larger concern would ultimately leave dalit protest undertaken only by Dalits a) Dalit question should never be supported & articulated forcefully by larger public b) It should remain a small & section shrill cry of Dalits themselves
(Related Articles: Mission Dalit gone awry, by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, page no. 5; Vigil and Vigilance, page no. 10; Death of public reason, by Gopal Guru, page no. 19)
• Dalit project has 2 dimensions a) Dalits incorporated into electoral plans through number of cosmetic political & administrative maneuvers b) Parallel social dimension, which worked towards assimilating Dalit communities in social roles that fit in with Hinduvta values & world view, which naturally sought to sustain upper caste hegemony • Two notable things that emerged after Una incident a) Young dalit people have displayed remarkable solidarity & a degree of assertion not seen before in Gujarat b) Use of social media • Rise of cilil societies like Dalit Asmit Yatra and dalits getting together against politicians • Mixing of student issues with discrimination against dalits for instance mixing of Dalit issue and Rohit Vemulla & JNU
(Related Articles: A case for lifting ban, by K.N. Nair, page no. 23; Milking the holy cow, by Seshadri Kumar, page no. 27)
• India had developed interregional trade in cattle to balance the requirement of cattle in various agro-ecological regions, but in recent years restrictions have been imposed on trade-related movement • Law governing cattle slaughter is not uniform acroos all states • Economists have also argued that a policy of systematically eliminating unproductive cattle can result in an increase in productivity among remaining stick and maximize the aggregate output of products and services derived from the cattle stock • In rural India a milch cow or she buffalo serves as a source of regular cash income for a household that owns them. The incomes come from the sale of milk • The overall growth and diversification of agriculture since the mid 1960s has resulted in a substantial increase in supply crop by products to support the livestock sector. • Problems faced in gaushals: a) Gaushalas are in dire straits. For eg. Recent deaths of cattle in Haryana and Rajasthan b) Gaushalas system is entirely corrupt as gaushalas receive both government and private onations without keeping proper records c) No proper records are kept d) Only cows that can still give milk are taken care of. The rest are ill treated e) The proceeds of sale of milk and animals are pocketed by committee members f) In many gaushalas animals cannot live for more than a few because of horrible conditions g) Animals die of starvation, overcrowding and filth h) Animals die of contaminated food i) Incredible cruelty meted out to animals • Benefits of lifting slaughter ban: a) Lifting the ban on slaughter of cattle would help get rid of the unwanted male and unproductive female animals and enhance the availability of feed for productive animals. It would improve efficiency b) The market for cattle low in productivity and unproductive cattle is negligible in states where there is a ban on slaughter and farmers do not get income from sale. Slaughter and export will increase heir income c) Lifting ban would help muslims sustain their jobs as they work mostly in slaughter houses d) Exports lead to huge economic benefits in trade as Indian beef is considered better e) Leather industry works on this and it provides jobs to weaker sections of society
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