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I first read about Fatima Sheikh in a piece titled “Remembering Fatima Sheikh, the first Muslim teacher who laid the foundation of Dalit-Muslim unity,” authored by Siddhant Mohan and published in the TwoCircles.net, April 7, 2017. 1/n
I first read about Fatima Sheikh in a piece titled “Remembering Fatima Sheikh, the first Muslim teacher who laid the foundation of Dalit-Muslim unity,” authored by Siddhant Mohan and published in the TwoCircles.net, April 7, 2017. 1/n
The title caught my attention because intuitively, I felt that Fatima Sheikh might not be the first Muslim teacher in the subcontinent, and Savitri Mai was not, in any case, a Dalit. 2/n
More so, the Pasmanda Movement had long been critical of the uncomplicated use of the “Muslim” category since it was hegemonized by the Ashraf classes and invisibilized the caste inequalities within. 3/n
