Dalit Women and the Struggle for Justice in a World of Global Capitalism

Feminist Theology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-149

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DOI: 10.1177/0966735005057806     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. This subject is treated more fully in Mary Grey, The Unheard Scream: The Struggles of Dalit women in India (New Delhi: Centre for Dalit Studies, 2004). Obtainable from Sarum College Bookshop, Salisbury.
2. See Mary Grey, ‘Gender, Justice and Poverty in Rural Rajasthan-Moving beyond the Silence’, in Feminist Theology 25 (September 2000), pp. 33-45.
3. See William Dalrymple, The Age of Kali (New York: HarperCollins, 1998).
4. ‘Endogamy’ refers to the practice of restricting marriage to within the same caste and even the sub-caste and forbidding inter-caste marriage.
5. The document ‘Dalits and Development Aid’ (London: Voice of Dalit International, 2003), p. 16, paragraph 5.1 gives the figure as 300 million, or 30% of the total population, of which 90% are below the poverty line. That means 270 million people.
6. Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes are those ‘Scheduled’ or recognized by the government as qualifying for certain advantages in employment, political system and education. Sudras are the fourth and lowest rung of the caste system.
7. Vimal Thorat, in Communalism Combat (Sabrang Communications and Publishing, Delhi, May 2001).
8. Cited by Gabriele Dietrich, ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements: Case Study and Conceptual Analysis’, in A New Thing on Earth: Hopes and Fears Facing Feminist Theology (Delhi: India Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge for Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary, Madurai, 2001), p. 216.
9. S.K. Singh, Dalit Women-Socio-economic Status and Issues (Lucknow: New Royal Book Company, 2000): pp. 36-7. The source for the statistics is National Commission for Women, Goverment of India, Delhi 1998.
10. Moses Seenarine, The Education of Dalit Women, 29 October, 1996: see www.saxacali.com and check publications of Moses Seenarine.
11. Singh, Dalit Women, pp. 36-37.
12. Ms Burnad Fathima, National President, Tamil Nadu Women's Forum, Speech at UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Geneva, 8-9 August, 2002.
13. Dietrich, ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements’, pp. 203-27.
14. Sumitra Bhave, Pan on Fire: 8 Dalit Women Tell their Stories (New Delhi: Indian Social Institute 1988), p. xxxix.
15. Luke Harding, The Guardian (www.guardianunlimited.co.uk), New Delhi, 9 May, 2001.
16. Personal story from Jasmine Jebakani, Christian Dalit theologian, Sarum College, Salisbury April 2003.
17. Gabriele Dietrich, ‘Dalit Feminism and the Environment’, in In God's Image 19.3 (September 2000), pp. 21-26.
18. The information is from S.K. Singh, Dalit Women, ch. 2.
19. Singh, Dalit Women, ch. 2.
20. Singh, Dalit Women, p. 38.
21. Singh, Dalit Women, pp. 140-42.
22. Luke Harding, The Guardian, 9 May, 2001.
23. Dietrich, ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements’, p. 204.
24. Dietrich, ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements’, p. 204.
25. Moses Seenarine, Dalit Women: Victims or Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action Policies in India-a Case Study (Brown Bag Lecture, S. Asian Institute, Columbia University, 10 April 1996), pp. 1-12.
26. Seenarine, Dalit Women: Victims or Beneficiaries, p. 5.
27. See R. Llangovan, ‘A Dalit damned for defying her Village’, http://hinduonnet.com/theHindu/2002/08/04
28. See Debashis Mukerji, ‘Brothel Buster’, in The Week, 25 January, 1998. This tells the moving story of one man, Ram Sanehi, himself of the Bedia tribe, who struggled to free the women of the tribe from prostitution.
29. Statement of Ms Burnad Fatima, UN committee on the Elimination of Descentbased Discrimination (CERD) 61st session. Geneva, 8-9 August, 2002, p. 3.
30. The source for this section is JWP team in northern Karnataka, ‘The Devadasi System in northern Karnataka’, in BANHI 1981/2. BANHI is an occasional journal published by the Joint Women's Programme. The Director of the programme is Jyotsna Chatterji. The Joint Women's Programme has its main office in New Delhi.
31. JWP team, ‘The Devadasi System in N. Karnataka’, p. 19.
32. Cited in Dietrich, ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements’, p. 217.
33. Here, I am grateful to the unpublished paper of Sister Shalini, ‘Dalit Women in India Today’, delivered at a Dalit Theology study week, New Delhi, January 2003.
34. Sister Shalini, ‘Hunger for Food and Thirst for Dignity: Well-being as Herme neutical Key to a Feminist Soteriology’. Unpublished paper, based on the author's research into the Catholic parish of Thiruvetriyur, a suburb of Chennai, formerly Madras.
35. John Webster, Deborah Premraj, Ida Swamidos, Rashilda Udayakumar, Chandra Yesuratnam, From Role to Identity: Dalit Christian Women in transition (New Delhi: ISPCK 1997).
36. Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwan and Suguna Ramanathan (eds.), The Silken Swing: The Cultural Universe of Dalit Women (Calcutta: Stree, 2000), pp. 28-29.
37. Franco, Macwan and Ramanathan (eds.), The Silken Swing, p. 113.
38. Readers of Feminist Theology may want to recall the challenge of Mukti Barton's article, ‘The Skin of Miriam Became as White as Snow: the Challenge of the Darker Sister’, in Feminist Theology 27 (May 2001), pp. 61-80.
39. Dietrich ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements’, p. 242.
40. Dietrich ‘The Relationship between Women's Movement and Dalit Movements’, p. 239.
41. See Franco, Macwan and Ramanathan (eds.), The Silken Swing, chs. 4-6.
42. Dr Sanjay Paswan and Dr Pramantha Jaideva, Encyclopedia of Dalits in India, Vol 9, Women (Delhi: Kalpax Publications, 2002), p. 158.
43. Vimal Thorat, in Communalism Combat.
44. Vimal Thorat, in Communalism Combat.
45. Encyclopedia of Dalits in India, Vol 9, Women, p. 143.
46. Encyclopedia of Dalits in India, Vol 9, Women, p. 149.
47. Encyclopedia of Dalits in India, Vol 9, Women, pp. 161-62.