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| India's "Untouchables" Face Violence, Discrimination by Hillary Mayell, National Geographic (June 2, 2003) |
| Dalit Solidarity News a comprehensive archive of news related to caste-based discrimination run by the International Dalit Solidarity Network |
| reports by Human Rights Watch: India: ‘Hidden Apartheid’ of Discrimination Against Dalits (February 13, 2007) Caste Discrimination: A Global Concern (September 2001) Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's "Untouchables" (March 1999) other reports on caste discrimination |
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| International Communist League (4th Internationalist) We're not currently members of this organization and we don't speak for it, but we do support its program of "building Leninist parties as national sections of a democratic-centralist international whose purpose is to lead the working class to victory through socialist revolutions throughout the world." |
Marxists Internet Archive an amazingly wide but poorly proofread archive of Marxist works |
| Here are some links to sources of information that people who visit this site may find useful. Except as noted, we don't necessarily agree with what they say or share their aims. |
| Trotskyism in India by Charles Wesley Erwin (Revolutionary History, Vol. 1 No. 4 Winter 1988-89) Part One: Origins Through World War Two (1935-45) |
| from International Trotskyism by Robert J. Alexander Trotskyism in India Ceylon/Sri Lanka: The Rise of the Sama Samaj Party |
| Bengali novelist and activist Mahasweta Devi on denotified tribals |
| Caste and Class Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army |
| ambedkar.org with links to more online writings |
| "Untouchable Politics and Politicians Since 1956" from THE UNTOUCHABLES: Subordination, Poverty And The State In Modern India By Oliver Mendelsohn & Marika Vicziany |
| links to the major fact-finding reports on the anti-Muslim massacre in Gujarat 2002 on onlinevolunteers.org |
| Sabrang Communications publishers of Communalism Combat |
| audio archive of talk show on caste broadcast on WBUR in Boston on August 7, 2001 with guests Smita Narula of Human Rights Watch and Professor Nicholas Dirks of Columbia University |
| Trapped in the Ruins William Dalrymple against V.S. Naipul's Hindu-chauvinist distortions of medieval Indian history |
| Laws of Manu "A low-caste man who tries to place himself on the same seat with a man of a high caste, shall be branded on his hip and be banished, or (the king) shall cause his buttock to be gashed." |
| hymns from the Rig Veda "His mouth was the Brahman [caste], his arms were the Rajanaya [Ksatriya caste], his thighs the Vaisya [caste]; from his feet the Sudra [caste] was born." |
| Claramma |
| audio archives of reports on caste broadcast on Nation Public Radio, August 29, 2001 |
| Ian's Buraku Research Resource Page on Japan's outcastes |
| Zharina Bhatty on Social Stratification Among Muslims in India |
| Esther Rani |
| On the Jewish Question by Abram Leon best Marxist work on (an aspect of) the caste question |
| articles on caste by P. Sainath The Riots and Wrongs of Caste (September 29, 2005) There's a Much Larger House on Fire (September 6, 2005) two stories on untouchables and tribals in the independence struggle and after (August 1997) |
| Dalits and Human Rights: The Battles Ahead by P. Sainath, journalist and editor of rural affairs for The Hindu |
| War Between the Castes by Tim McGirk, Time (December 15, 1997) |
| The Adivasis of India--A History of Discrimination, Conflict, and Resistance by C.R. Bijoy, All India Coordinating Forum of Adivasis/Indigenous Peoples |
| The Curse of Manual Scavenging by Sachin Kumar (February 26, 2005) |
| New Tech-Support Caste Arises in India from The Onion, a satirical weekly newspaper parody |
| The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum: Lessons for the Struggle Against 'Globalisation' by Rajini X. Desai, published by the Mumbai-based Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) in their journal Aspects of India's Economy see also Ford Foundation, CIA, and the Social Forums Workers Vanguard (May 27, 2005) |
| ZESTCaste mailing list comprehensive selections from press reports, along with updates on activism and academic research, contributed by members |
| reports on dalit and tribal rights by the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) |
| selected English-language Indian press: The Hindu (Chennai [Madras]) Frontline Economic and Political Weekly Outlook India The Indian Express (New Delhi) Times of India (Mumbia [Bombay]) Telegraph (Kolkata [Calcutta]) The Deccan Herald (Bangalore) |
| Exposing an abhorrent practice review by S. Vishwanathan (Jan. 28-Feb. 10, 2006, Frontline) of Gita Ramaswamy's book on manual scavenging India Stinking |
| Subhuman lives by Praful Bidwai, Inter Press Service (October 2002) |
| "The 'Quit India' Movement 50 Years On: Stalinist Alliance with Churchill Betrayed the Indian Revolution" Workers Hammer, September/October and November/December 1992 |
| The Trotskyist Press on India/Sri Lanka (1939-51) compiled and adapted from the Enclyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line |
| Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon: A Documentary History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935-1942 by George Jan Lerski |
| The Revolution in India by Leon Trotsky An Open Letter to the Workers of India: India Faced with Imperialist War by Leon Trotsky Trotsky on India and Permanent Revolution To the Workers and Peasants of India: Manifesto of the Fourth International (1942) |
| Marxists on India and Colonialism: Marx, Engels, Kautsky, Lenin, MN Roy, Trotsky |
| For Separation of Religion and State: No to Ontario's "Sharia Courts"! Down With Anti-Muslim Racism! (from Spartacist Canada No. 142, Fall 2004) |
| Early Bolshevik Work Among Women of the Soviet East Women and Revolution No. 12, Summer 1976 |
| Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression Workers Vanguard No. 864, February 17, 2006 |
| Workers Hammer, January-February 1993: India: Hindu Fascists Whip Up Religious Slaughter |
| Remember Ayodhya for another reason: The 1857 revolt began in this region and it was waged by both Hindus and Muslims by Kavita Krishnan, The Indian Express, May 16, 2002 |
| Labor Notes South Asia mailing list |
| See our news page for links to news items related to caste, communalism, and class struggle in South Asia. |
| anti-caste: news for news links related to caste, communalism, and class struggle in South Asia |
| A Designer Universe? by Steven Weinberg (New York Review of Books, October 21, 1999) a physicist's defense of the scientific worldview: "One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." Socialism and Religion by V.I. Lenin The ABC of Communism by N.I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky (Chapter 11: Communism and Religion, § 89. Why religion and communism are incompatible) |
| An Accursed Race by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) essay by the Victorian novelist and social reformer on untouchables in medieval France |
| letter to Workers Vanguard on the Amritsar massacre by Charles Wesley Erwin |