Dalit Historical past Month: Temper Of The Month, April 2023

Dr BR Ambedkar was born in April, which can also be recognised as “Dalit Historical past Month” throughout the globe. The primary name for Dalit Historical past Month was made by a Tamil Dalit activist, Paari Chezhian in 2011 in a weblog publish. The idea was later put into motion by a six-member staff of Vee Karunakaran, Christina Thomas Dhanaraj, Asha Kowtal, Sanghapali Aruna, Manisha Devi and Thenmozhi Soundararajan in 2015. It was modelled after Black Historical past Month in America.

The month holds symbolic significance as a result of it recollects the caste-based violence, atrocities, abuse, marginalisation, and subjugation that Dalit minorities, Adivaisis, Bahujans, and Scheduled Tribes have needed to endure in a deeply caste-divided and polarised Indian society. The month additionally honours the reminiscence of those that made supreme sacrifices, led revolutionary actions, and feminist and intersectional campaigns and formed & improved the historical past of Dalits and different caste minorities.

It has been noticed that the present political system is tightening its grip on minorities extra firmly, resulting in lynchings, killings, humiliations, sub-humanisation, and boycotts. Dalits and different caste minorities have been topic to systematic violence, oppression, and ostracisation for hundreds of years.

Patriarchal Brahmanism and Hindus of the higher caste and sophistication varna, along with the crimes promoted by the state, severely marginalise and discriminate towards Dalits, Adivasis, and Scheduled Tribes.

Dalits have been marginalised on all fronts in an environment of prejudice from many instructions, together with financial, sociopolitical, and cultural exclusion.

Consequently, you will need to record and document the histories, revolutionary actions, and feminist teams which have existed and are nonetheless energetic within the Dalit discourse. The aim is to protect and maintain an area that’s strictly for Dalits and different caste minorities, free from interruptions from Brahminical and Varna narratives.

To create extra enlightening and correct Dalit discourse, this month is the time to be taught, unlearn, and rewrite the histories, narratives, testimonies, and accounts of Dalits and different minorities autonomously from the affect of Brahminical and Varna caste narratives and views.

In April 2023, Feminism In India is looking for entries for “Dalit Historical past Month” to vary the prevalent Brahminical & Varna discourse about Dalits and different caste minorities and to create a Dalit discourse. We purpose to begin conversations, hone and contribute to histories, and assemble a Dalit unique discourse. We’d encourage Dalit authors to write down the items due to our stringent, anti-appropriation editorial coverage.

Following are some suggestions and strategies on your articles:

• Dalit Actions, Protests, Resistances

• Represnatation of Dalits in Insititutions and institutions

• Political illustration, illustration in sports activities, movies, popular culture and literature

• Wanting on the movies, books and popular culture by means of the Dalit gaze

• Historic moments of intersectionality (Incapacity, Sexuality, Gender, Faith, Class, Battle)

• Oppression and violence towards Dalit and Dalit ladies

• Gender-based violence towards Dalit ladies and different genders 

This record will not be exhaustive and you could be at liberty to write down on subjects inside the theme that we might have missed out on right here. 

Please consult with our submission tips earlier than you ship us your entries. You might e-mail your submissions to [email protected]

We sit up for your drafts and hope you take pleasure in writing them!