"the institution that is asking for an update of data is the judiciary. And if the judiciary wants to know the nation wants to know!" _ Prof @jaffrelotc
"Hindutva politics and the Post Mandal caste politics that BJP plays is not contradictory, it's indeed complimentary" - @jaffrelotc
"It's not only that we dont know the effect of reservation on public sector, but we also have no data on its effect of academia!" - how has reservation affected the socio-economic status of Dalits and Adivasis in terms of their access to power in education-@jaffrelotc
"Under the ideological wrap, the backward classes were pushed back, the dwija Bhadraloks advanced. Once the caste census comes, each caste position will be known. Who have more numbers, who have economic potential to organise political parties will be known" - Prof Illiah
"Dalits cannot conduct a civil war, adivasis cannot, but shudras can. Once they capture central University, with the consciousness of Phule and Ambedkar. Reversal of process starts. That is where caste census is a critical thought" - Prof Illiah
"If you read all their literature, caste is an integral part of them. How can they be proud of their Hinduness without caste? Recently Yogi had said "I am proud of my caste. Even God belongs to my caste." - @sagar_reporter
"Hindutva is not limited to monuments and hate speeches, they are trying to build economic structures, where the trading rights will go to Baniyas, and Brahmins will control the whole process." - @sagar_reporter
"If you hear Modi's speech under the brand of Atma Nirbhar bharat, he said, "We need economic structures based on our Sanskriti and Parampara" - @sagar_reporter
"Bejwada Wilson said -"We don't need the PM to shower flowers on us, he has to fix this problem of manual scavenging once and for all. - @sagar_reporter
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Q&A for the 4th Panel on 'From Colonial to the Everyday: Hindutva’s Caste Ambiguity' is going on.
#CasteCensus "Between 2014 and 2018, UPPSC jobs came down by 40% and so oppressed groups got fewer jobs by reservations. In 2019, by setting income limit of 8 LPA, government made this quota accessible only to the elites of UCs."-Christophe Jaffrelot @saaf_oxforduni
#CasteCensus "Shudra landed castes (Marathas, Jatts etc) did not support reservation. Only now that regional Shudra leadership is demanding Caste Census. Once it comes, they realizes the truth about their strength in powerful places"-Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd @saaf_oxforduni
Our third speaker Christophe Jaffrelot (@jaffrelotc) has begun discussing 'From Colonial to the Everyday: Hindutva’s Caste Ambiguity' #CountingCaste #CasteCensus
@jaffrelotc We need data, showing representation of different castes in different institutions. This is one of the ways to assess the degree of representativeness and hence democratisation, this is true for India and other countries.
@jaffrelotc Those who come from one group will be inclined to speak about their group, especially in parliament. I started looking at this data of Members of Parliaments, in the 80s and this data is a goldmine.
Our second speaker Sagar has begun discussing 'From Colonial to the Everyday: Hindutva’s Caste Ambiguity' #CountingCaste #CasteCensus
I will speak from my experiences of reporting on Hindutva, before coming to the caste census. Hindutva is not just about mobs wearing shawls, red marks on their forehead. It is more about people who want Hinduism as the normal politics of the country.
First coined by Savarkar, he says Hindutva is about common religion, common heroes, common history, common festivals, common flow of blood, everyone born this side of Sindhu. He says Christian and Muslim communities are not Hindu because they do not have this common history.
Our first speaker Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd begins speaking on 'From Colonial to the Everyday: Hindutva’s Caste Ambiguity'
What are called as ‘Hindu texts’ do not have anything about counting people, including the Rig Veda. They do not mention the role of the productive communities of Shudras and their numbers.
Whether it is the right wing, the left wing, the liberals, none have spoken about the damage by the Hindu texts about the absence of productive communities.