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It is important to catalog and understand the different facets of our oppression. There is no future in arguing about degrees of oppression. A lot of "movement" types come on with a line of shit about homosexuals not being oppressed as much as blacks or Vietnamese or workers or women...
Class Love. Ancient attitudes have kept caste barriers Himalayan in height. So has the fact that, for all the official pronouncements, the government has done little to help. Over the past 15 years, spending on special economic-aid programs for harijans has totaled only $90 million, a meager 1.5% of...
Placard-carrying "militant" Untouchables have not yet appeared on the streets of Delhi, but the harijan case is being made more and more vocally by the small harijan bloc in Parliament, by a few enlightened caste Hindus-and by the Communists. As Gandhi warned, if love and legislation do not...
*Caste was stronger than color, but the desired light skin was most common among Brahmans (priests), who ranked ahead of Ksha-triyas (warriors and administrators), Vaisyas (traders and farmers) and, finally, dark-skinned Sudras (menial laborers of all kinds).
IAGJIVAN RAM has a lumpy, 5-ft. 5-in. frame, thick features and ears that fairly bristle with hair. He is an Untouchable, with roots in the lowly chamar (leatherworkers) caste. Yet, as Congress Party president, Minister for Food and Agriculture, and Indira Gandhi's chief ally, Ram at...