Today’s session of #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater concluded with a data packed session analyzing “Constructing India - The Western Discourse on India's Fragments,” Some hard-hitting observations from Dr. Sarita Seshahgiri, Divya Nagraja, Richa Gautam 1/n
Dr. Seshahgiri emphasizes that research findings tend to exclude diverse demographics and are based on researchers’ preconceived notions #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 2/n
“To reconstruct our fragments, we need to understand how urgent it is to reclaim our civilizational value” -Dr. Seshahgiri #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 3/n
Dr. Seshahgiri highlights that data gets misconstrued cause “anecdotal instances are put together to create caste narrative” #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 4/n
Dr. Seshahgiri emphasizes that somebody needs to look at data directly from the police departments to disabuse people from false accusations of inaccurate research #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 5/n
“There’s no published work saying this is how not to ask 'caste' questions. When they don’t find hard evidence of oppression, they start using personal experiences to put together either gender or class oppression as acceptable in statistics.”@radiosari #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater
“Nobody is questioning the ethics of questioning” -Dr. Sarita Seshahgiri #BreakingIndiaADecadeLater 7/n
Academic publishing happens under the agenda/guidelines decided by Breaking India forum. You can be a fundamentalist if its against Hindus. Scholarship is built around a paradigm of competitive victimhood. This academic endorsement then shapes public opinion/policies.”@radiosari
Join us tomorrow for more hard-hitting data, analysis and perspectives.🙏🏾 9/n
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