Caste in Australia: An update
@iFECCA
's report has recognised pervasive and systemic caste discrimination in Australia as a major finding. This is based on our extensive research documenting
#casteism
in hashtag
#Australia
by interviewing 146
#Dalits
It was a great honour to pay tribute to Dr. Ambedkar at Gray’s Inn, London on the centenary of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar being called at Bar. Jai Bhim
#Ambedkar100yearsatBar
A Dalit woman winning from an open seat in Mumbai and defeating the lawyer who destroyed the Khairlanji massacre case
@VarshaEGaikwad
take a bow. Jai Bhim
आम्ही रक्षक संविधानाचे
आम्ही लढवय्ये न्यायाचे
आम्हाला आशीर्वाद जनतेचा
आम्हावर विश्वास जनमानसांचा
विजय गुलाल आपलाच..!
हा ऐक्याचा, आघाडीचा, सत्याचा, लोकशाहीचा, जनमानसाचा विजय..!
माझ्यावर, काँग्रेस पक्षावर आणि इंडिया-महाविकास आघाडीवर दाखवलेल्या विश्वासाबद्दल मी मुंबई उत्तर
Dr. Ambedkar’s petition for being called to the bar at
@HonSocGraysInn
gave me goosebumps! This is in the original handwriting of Dr Ambedkar well preserved in the archives-15 Jun 1922💙
#Ambedkar
When sun shines is that feeling of holding your book for the first time. The arduous journey to
#Oxford
from a Dalit slum colony in Nagpur will inspire me to seek truth and truth alone while being grounded in my roots & still being starry-eyed. This is for you Aayi(Mom)💙
#EWS
Caste discrimination and prejudice is not just a case of an interpersonal and inter-cultural issue within the South Asian diaspora, it is a pervasive, systemic and racism problem.
Launching Oxford 5 with
@surajyengde
: an initiative which offers 1:1 mentoring to Dalit and Adivasi students to access the University of Oxford postgraduate admissions.
please fill out the form if you are interested:
On
#Dalit
Liberation Day,
@surajyengde
and I launch the Oxford Ambedkar Initiative.
The
#anticaste
struggle must be shaped and led by us Dalits. Upper-caste appropriators & career opportunist megalomaniacs cannot erase Dalit voices
@UniofOxford
.
Everyone is welcome to join. 1/2
Speaking to 'my' students and people on fighting casteism in universities against casteist admin and profs., on
1. How to identify discrimination
2. How to safeguard against personal attacks
3. Why non-violent FORCE is needed to fight predators
4. Dalit consciousness (Ambedkar)
I argued for affirmative action (not reservations) in private sector employment and reparations in the form of land allocation to Dalits as reparations for untouchability in addition to reservations.
#JaiBhim
“If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country.… Hindu Raj must be prevented at any cost” B.R. Ambedkar in Pakistan or the Partition of India (354-355) 1/2
#JaiBhim
200,000 plus people celebrating a man, our father who gave us identity of a human.
#Bhimjayanti132
#Baba
💙 our liberator and my dear father, salute to you & your radical thought and a promise to always keep it alive.
#AmbedkarJayanti
Babasaheb
#Ambedkar
left us too soon. I keep thinking how many more millions would've converted to Buddhism and shocked the casteist Hindu society had he been alive for at least 10 more years.
He remains alive in our hearts. No despair, though it is a sorrowful day. 🫡💙
#JaiBhim
#Caste
#discrimination
is the reality of Indian society where Dalits are brutalised in all aspects of their lives. I openly spoke to 'my' students for 3 hours sharing my experience of fighting caste segregation of hostels at National Law University Delhi
Happy to see
@sundaymidday
doing a whole page story of my Google drive anti-caste resource activism- to help students fight
#casteism
in Indian
#universities
. It has FAQs and step by step guidance to identify and tackle casteism. Plz don't fight ALONE!
Happy Dalit Liberation Day! 💙 (Dhammachakra Pavattan Din)
Today in 1956
#Ambedkar
renounced Hinduism and the underlying discrimination it promotes against untouchables & converted to Buddha's Dhamma based emancipating us Dalits.
See the next post for IMP announcement ➡️
#JaiBhim
Dr
#Ambedkar
’s application to
@HonSocGraysInn
for being admitted as a student of Law! You can also spot recommendations given to him and Letter dated 8 Nov 1916 introducing him. 💙
It will be my honour to speak on Dr. Ambedkar’s development perspectives alongside Chief Minister
@siddaramaiah
today. Will share the script of the keynote later.
#JaiBhim
“On a personal note, to conclude, making it to Oxford to pursue my many degrees would not have been possible without my Babasaheb, ‘Baba’ in Indian vernacular is a respectful way of addressing someone as ‘father.’
I've fought casteist students and profs at Oxford by making multiple complaints, for spreading lies and rumours about me which were casteist and done with total impunity. Silencing, erasure, and abuse don't capture 2 suicide attempts that I had to resort to because of it 1/2
@wankhedeasang
land a good career pontificating dalits about their higher moral grounds. we know the drill, they will do this as an act of charity. we know the drill, our ancestors wrote about this !!
It is Dr.
#Babasaheb
#Ambedkar
's win. Gen. election was fought on his values of democracy. People of India rejected 'Bhakti or hero-worship' of Modi. Realising Ambedkar's vision that 'Hero-worship' is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship, the
#constitution
won
I am happy to share the cover and first preview of my forthcoming monograph. It will be published later this month and will open for pre-orders soon!
Indebted to my supervisor Barbara Havelkova
@OxfordLawFac
for M/DPhil financial support!
@RoutledgeLaw
It was an honour to deliver the keynote on caste capitalism with a focus on the law of caste, transformative constitutionalism and Dr. Ambedkar’s emphasis on human and human suffering in the Indian development project
Oxford Ambedkar Initiative is beginning the 'OAI Summer Lecture Series' that will bring world-renowned academics and practitioners on caste to Oxford. We begin the exciting journey with the launch of
@dhaneswar
Prof. Gorringe's book
@JensLerche
Register:
So true. But love Babasaheb’s dapper look in lawyer gown. My baba be looking all handsome and dapper, inspiring his younger kids to dress politically. 💙
Next time a Hindustan Times journalist queries about the prevailing caste discrimination in judicial appointments, Chief Justice Chandrachud can say he installed a statue of Dr. B R Ambedkar on the Supreme Court premises 👇
सावधा⚠️: मेरे साथी दलितों से अपील।
@nitinmeshram_
आपको मूर्ख न बनने दें। सुप्रीम कोर्ट के 7 जज उनकी अतार्किक दलील को 8 मिनट तक भी बर्दाश्त नहीं कर सके। वह एससी/एसटी के लिए अनुकूल बाबासाहेब अम्बेडकर के आरक्षण के दृष्टिकोण के साथ अन्याय कर रहे हैं।(1/3)
अनुसूचित जाति की लिस्ट को bifurcate करने के लिए सुप्रीम कोर्ट की 7 जजों के सामने आज argument किया। मुझे यदि समाज के लोगों ने अपनी पसंद का पहले नंबर का lead lawyer रखा होता तो हम ये केस जीत जाते। जजमेंट अभी आने का है, जजमेंट क्या होगा यह तो कोर्ट ही pronouncement करके बताएगा।
Back from Twitter break and
@surajyengde
sharing with you the first success of Oxford5! managed to mentor a Dalit student in getting successful admission at
@UniofOxford
! Oxford Ambedkar Initiative did it!
It is a small step but a giant leap
#AmbedkarJayanti2024
💙
My brother
@GAURAVJPATHANI2
is an inspiration to the young and the old, to Dalits and non-Dalits. Not only a great scholar but also a Hollywood actor from the Dalit community.
#JaiBhim
Caste is pervasive in all aspects of life. We kick-started
#Oxford
#Ambedkar
Initiative's summer lecture series with an excellent panel of commentators who discussed the original contribution by
@dhaneswar
and Prof. Hugo Gorringe
@EdinburghUni
@BalliolOxford
It was my honour to speak at
@BrandeisU
The Sixth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar with ace panellist on
#caste
and
#Ambedkar
Prof Thorat, Manoj Mitta
@scottrstroud
and Dr Rathod.
Breaking my twitter silence (plan was to read the 400 page
#EWS
quota judgement first & then write). Here- Hon'ble Justice Dinesh Maheswari in his separate opinion held, "[reservation]is nevertheless an exception to the general rule of equality." 1/2
@surajyengde
on Caste, Race and Class in the US and India. Amazing keynote discussing language of caste used in American sociology and why comparing caste and race is important.
@LSEInequalities
British Sociological Association
Last year I had the honour to speak
@HonSocGraysInn
on Ambedkar's conscious critique of the limitations of the law and the rights language in bringing social and systemic transformation. As India celebrates the Constitution Day, we should reflect 1/2
It was a great honour to pay tribute to Dr. Ambedkar at Gray’s Inn, London on the centenary of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar being called at Bar. Jai Bhim
#Ambedkar100yearsatBar
How did Ambedkar use Buddhism as a religion, a political tool and spirituality to escape caste discrimination by converting to Buddhism? Dr Santosh Raut, CSWR, Prof. Thorat, Prof. Edelglass, Dr. Vundru unpacked this in deeply
@HarvardDivinity
Prof. Benjamin Eidelson’s
@Harvard_Law
work on dignity, individual autonomy and colourblindness in the US context has been key to think about Indian supreme court’s casteblindness rhetoric and gradual shift towards strict scrutiny of caste conscious affirmative action. 1/2
**Attention people in Australia**
If u or your friends have experienced
#castediscrimination
in
#Australia
and want to make a difference in the legal reform please provide us with your testimonies of harassment-
@AmbedkarAU
pls share
Thank you for the overwhelming response for the event. Those of you who cannot join us in person this Monday 13 Nov
@BalliolOxford
7pm GMT for the launch of the Oxford Ambedkar Initiative pls join us on Zoom:
@surajyengde
@SantoshDass1048
@cherikural
Join a strong voice of Dalit community
@Sonpimplerahul
and
@sumeetmhaskar
and others for this historic event on the need for reservation in private sector in India.
Join AIISCA's on December 23rd in New Delhi. According to the RBI report between 1991-2012, over 20 lakh jobs were lost in the organized public sector, affecting SC, ST, and OBC communities. Let's address these concerns and advocate for reservation in the private sector.
@surajyengde
bhau you can read about the analysis of the entire jurisprudence on 50 percent limit in chapter 5 of my book. For the former, please read Justice Bhat’s dissent and my chapter 6, 7 and 9.
#EWS
=casteist
justice maheshwari: “EWS reservation does not violate the equality code or violate essential feature of constitution and breach of 50 percent does not violate basic structure as the ceiling limit is here only for 16(4) and (5).”
how?? can anyone please help me understand this?
An appeal to all Dalit students who are fighting caste-discrimination in the universities
DON'T fight alone
DON'T fight impulsively
PlZ safeguard your life, reputation and career first
DON'T FORGET to fight with collective force.
personal costs are too high, I still am paying.
Happy to see
@sundaymidday
doing a whole page story of my Google drive anti-caste resource activism- to help students fight
#casteism
in Indian
#universities
. It has FAQs and step by step guidance to identify and tackle casteism. Plz don't fight ALONE!
Key finding of our project:
Participants reported worst of caste identity-based discrimination in form of physical assault, being treated as untouchables (especially children), and socioeconomic boycott on business and persons. (1/3)
Celebrating
#Bhim
#Jayanti
(
#BabasahebAmbedkar
Birthday) by offering sweets and Pulao to over 2000 people who take out long rallies to the nearest statue of Dr Ambedkar (see the photos) happy to be here after 4 years! 💙
#JaiBheem
Our aim:
- Urgently start 'Oxford5': 1:1 mentoring 5 Dalit students to get admission and funding at Oxford each year
- Continue efforts towards recognising caste as a protected ground in
@UniofOxford
EDI policy
- Estb.
#Dalit
centric anti-caste culture
@UniofOxford
#JaiBhim
2/2
The argument against
#subclassification
of
#Dalits
. I argue here that the social perceptions on the ‘forwardness’ of certain sub-castes and the general anti-reservation rhetoric and not substantive caste census data plays a role in judicial approaches.
The agony that comes with the complete abuse, casteism and erasure of Dalit voices
@UniofOxford
by students and centres. We all remember your treatment
@surajyengde
by
@OxIndiaCentre
@SomervilleOx
here are the screenshots of your experience ⬇️
@wankhedeasang
something fishy? these dalit haters did the same with the scholarship concerning savitri bai phule—chandala exclusion.
the plot is clear: they want to now take away the dalit spaces created by dalits and make a currency out of it, write in their job applications, and…
But it was also the professors at Oxford best mental health professionals and lovely friends who helped me fight this stalking, abuse and caste discrimination and asked me to remain "silent" as I didn't have the power to fight them. 2/2
@surajyengde
Honoured to have been bestowed with Equality Vanguard Award by Ambedkar International, Australia
@AmbedkarAU
for community leadership in anti-caste work in South Asian Diaspora in Australia.
#AmbedkarJayanti2024
Oxford Ambedkar Initiative's Book launch of Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect in Indian Society by
@dhaneswar
Prof. Hugo Gorringe hosted at
@BalliolOxford
@UniofOxford
Subscribe to our
@YouTube
channel
Oxford Ambedkar Initiative at
@BalliolOxford
is excited to announce our second lecture by political economist
@sumeetmhaskar
who will dissect the 2024 Indian elections.
Save the date 20 June 2024 2pm UK 6:30pm India time.
#indianelections
#Caste
It was great to speak on my book, caste in international law and the monster of caste at various sessions for the
#GlobalAmbedkariteConvention2022
@BirkbeckUoL
@SOAS
told fellow Ambedkarites to not dismiss caste discrimination because some don’t experience it.
lt is Constitution Day in India today. Of whatever is left of our constitutional democracy, let's not despair. Babasaheb Ambedkar's pragmatism with law tells us that transformative constitutionalism is the only way to end inequalities & discrimination in our society.
Plz share and spread the word
We urge individuals from caste-oppressed communities to participate in the Australian National Community Consultations on Caste Discrimination, 2024, by registering through the provided form: .
@AmbedkarAU
Oxford Ambedkar Initiative is calling Mentors to support over 60 students from Dalit and Adivasi backgrounds in Oxford postgraduate admissions. Yes! we have got an overwhelming number of responses from for our Oxford5 programme. 1/2
Grab your copy of
@wankhedeasang
's timely intervention on
#Reservation
for
#EWS
among the
#uppercastes
!
"Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional LawContext, Judicial Discourse, and Critique"
2/2
HOW can the judge cite Dr. Jaishri Patel (2022) and not cite N.M. Thomas and rule against the well settled reservation jurisprudence that quotas are a 'facet' of equality and not an 'exception' to it.
#SHOCKED
#EWSJudgement
My argument against sub-classification of Scheduled Castes
Having put forth the limitations of
@nitinmeshram_
argument and its effect of regressing from the constitutional position secured by Dr. Ambedkar,
In another state! 05 Dalit
#manualscavengers
killed!
Upper-castes will now ask for their caste IDs and try to delete systemic
#caste
#oppression
in this incident. India is a fantasy of contradictions it is
#Vishwaguru
(world leader) who kills its most oppressed
#Dalits
every day
In MP's Morena, 05 sanitation workers killed due to asphyxiation while cleaning a septic tank at a food factory.
Manual scavenging is a crime but the governments completely fail to enforce it.
The geo-political space that one acquires by the 'accident of one's birth' (caste in India) comes with disadvantages in access, opportunities, and the weight of everyday discrimination.
@OxfordLawFac
@BalliolOxford
Well said
@Prksh_Ambedkar
ji. It is that resilience and valour which has helped our people fight everyday casteism in today’s India with dignity and strength.
Jai Bhim!
We are not foxes but lions! Never forget this, my people.
“They” have turned a blind eye to our strength but we all know what wonders we can do.
Glory will be ours.
Jai Bhim!
From Times Sq, New York: I discuss perpetuity of discrimination manual scavenging, the myth of merit(less) in affirm action; my journey in buddhist meditation and fighting discrimination for
#Dalit
students with
@AmanKumarKamble
@awaaz_india
#JAIBHIM
I argue here how even after putting aside the many illegalities of EWS quota, it can never achieve its objective while explaining its many incoherences.
on ews, a legal riposte by oxford scholar and author of “affirmative action…”
@wankhedeasang
Of caste, privilege and quotas: A reality check
#Dalitality
बिल्कुल नहीं! भाई, आप सत्य की खोज में एक शैक्षिक हैं, तो आप झूठ फैला क्यों रहे हैं ? CJI Chandrachud ने जो कहा उसे गलत तरीके से पेश कर रहे हैं? वह इस मुद्दे प���
@nitinmeshram_
से चकित थे और अगर इस तरह के अतार्किक को स्वीकार कर लिया जाए तो यह दलित समुदाय के लिए कितना खतरनाक है!
Not to ignore the active sabotaging attempts made by Congress and NCP in the past against Dalit leadership but this election was different. Our leader
@Prksh_Ambedkar
ji would have won with INDIA alliance as INC+VBA had 2 lakh combined margin over BJP 🥲
@BhimArmyChief
gives a new life to Dalit politics in India. His resilience to fight enemies from outside (Three attempts to kill him) and within (BSP) there is a hope that he will be the active child of
#Ambedkar
in parliament. Jai Bhim
It's my honour to lead this study under the leadership of strong Ambedkarites in Australia: Dr Ajay Niranjane, Haroon Kasim and
@VV_Gaikwad
Humbled to contribute my leadership in making an impact through rigorous research for
@AusHumanRights
@iFECCA
initiative! 💙
We r grateful 2
@wankhedeasang
4 his leadership in developing the consultation framework 🙏 & the contribution of Dr Ajay Niranjane, Dr
@VV_Gaikwad
& Dr Haroon Kasim in the conceptulisation & implementation👍. We also thank
@HariBapuji
& team 4 their support 🙏.
आप विद्वान व्यक्ति हैं.
@Profdilipmandal
अपने सबसे अच्छे दोस्त का समर्थन करने के लिए दलितों से गद्दारी? अप्पको तो पता है सर की ये आर्गुमेंट बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर विरोधी है, फिर बाबासाहेब से भी गद्दारी?
लगी शर्त?
एससी यानी अनुसूचित जाति लिस्ट के विभाजन पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में लगभग सारे पक्ष और वकील विभाजन के समर्थन में खड़े थे। भारत के अटॉर्नी जनरल, सोलीलिटर जनरल, सिब्बल, धवन सब।
सिर्फ एक वकील
@nitinmeshram_
कोर्ट में डटा रहा कि बँटवारा संभव नहीं है क्योंकि एससी लिस्ट, छुआ-छूत
With my dear friends
@awaaz_india
@AmanKumarKamble
and Prof Santosh Raut Maitriveer Nagarjuna
@Harvard
we spoke how Ambedkar made it possible for us 3 Dalit-Buddhists to be here.
#JaiBhim
more exciting content coming up.
In this article
@alenawrites
and I bring out how Supreme Court's jurisprudence on manual scavenging perpetuates the heinous practice by extending a differential treatment to it through ignorance of its own human dignity jurisprudence.
#manualscavenging
#Dalit
#discrimination
Publication alert! 🥳
NGOs & scholars claim that the way forward is to enforce the existing law on manual scavenging.
@wankhedeasang
and I beg to differ. In our new paper, we ask to what extent the Supreme Court of India can eradicate manual scavenging.
#Alert
is now public and has resources to fight casteism on university campuses. Esp. the FAQs compendium that answers arguments against reservations, how to identify discrimination and how to fight back against casteist predators.
#castediscrimination
#Caste
#discrimination
is the reality of Indian society where Dalits are brutalised in all aspects of their lives. I openly spoke to 'my' students for 3 hours sharing my experience of fighting caste segregation of hostels at National Law University Delhi
#Oxford
Book launch and Discussion of my monograph is happening at Balliol College, University of Oxford Lecture Room 23 17:00-18:00 UK time.
@JensLerche
Dr. Barbara Havelkova & Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud as discussants register:
@BalliolOxford
@OxfordLawFac
Caste discrimination is the reality of Australian society. Are you a caste oppressed person in Australia? Have you faced discrimination because of your identity? Register ⬇️ and help
@AmbedkarAU
@PATCAustralia
with legal reform.
#JaiBhim
Speaking to 'my' students and people on fighting casteism in universities against casteist admin and profs., on
1. How to identify discrimination
2. How to safeguard against personal attacks
3. Why non-violent FORCE is needed to fight predators
4. Dalit consciousness (Ambedkar)
Caste in Australia: Report presentation
@iFECCA
conference 2024. I discuss the scope, methodology and the major findings from our phenemenological study of lived experiences of caste oppresed communities in Australia.
Parallels between Rājyābhiṣeka(Vedic ceremony of coronation) and the symbolism of formally instituting of Hindu Raj, Hindu Rashtra in India without amending the Constitution. This is a display of the administrative efforts taken for exactly doing that. 2/2
Photos-
@Outlookindia
It was great to meet the very learned
@CMahadevappa
who is more an academician than a politician. Discussed various issues related to implementation of the budget allocated to SC/ST programmes and how can we replicate the Karnataka model of social welfare across India.
आरक्षण जिसके लिए बाबा साहेब अम्बेडकर ने इतना संघर्ष किया, कि इसे मौलिक अधिकार भाग III में शामिल किया जाए! अच्छा हुआ आपको पहले नंबर का lead lawyer नहीं बनाया, कौन जानता है कि इससे क्या अनर्थ होता. दलितों को बेवकूफ बनाना बंद करे🙏 3/3
It is my honour to speak today
@BrandeisU
on my book(s), published and upcoming ones! Happy to be sharing the panel with pioneering colleagues who work on caste and
#Ambedkar
Video recording of
@sumeetmhaskar
’s in-depth analysis of the Indian elections. It covers a range of themes: reinvigoration of regional politics, caste politics, future of Dalit politics etc.
Overwhelmed by the response to OAI’s summer lecture series.💙
It will be an honour to lead this crucial study and contribute to the global efforts in recognising caste discrimination existing anti discrimination framework.
@AmbedkarAU
@iFECCA
@AusHumanRights
Plz share and spread the word
We urge individuals from caste-oppressed communities to participate in the Australian National Community Consultations on Caste Discrimination, 2024, by registering through the provided form: .
@AmbedkarAU