Paalaguttapalle (Dalitwada) - A Village: Caste and Jati

Sunday, 24 December 2017

Caste and Jati

"We are lucky India has majority rural still .
And caste . That binds them together .
If they were individuals they would be easy to break, dissipate and destroy.

The ONLY power the village have is their community . What other collective power they have ?
Some urban activist gathering them under "peasant" !
or "agri worker"
I have never met a authentic "left" ever in my life .
Who has thought through industrialism and modernity. "

Anita Adapa, Paranthaman Sriramulu and 3 others

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Paranthaman Sriramulu Village is a family.

Mohammad Chappalwala Caste is problematic

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Aparna Krishnan See it as communities. Do you beleive in communities, with their bondings, and their gods and their customs, and their traditional skills and livlihoods ?

Aparna Krishnan If you do, then validate that. And question the supression of any community, if so.

Aparna Krishnan Jatis are the framework of India. The potters are a jati, the weaver are another, the bangle sellers are another, the shopkeepers are another ...

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Mohammad Chappalwala Yes nomenclature is imp

Mohammad Chappalwala So we have to say community

Aparna Krishnan ok, jati, the indian term.

Aparna Krishnan you only want an english word ??

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Mohammad Chappalwala Jati too is problematic

Mohammad Chappalwala Samudai samaaj

Aparna Krishnan Jati is what the people of India use, and thats the community they identify with. You are I are nobody to give new names !

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Aparna Krishnan Take society as it is. Accept it. Validate the strengths. Question the deviations.

Mohammad Chappalwala Yes the deviations are criminal

Aparna Krishnan The first three sentences ?

Aparna Krishnan Every society and every 'archy' has deviations, and corrections are in order always.

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