Caste, Race and Discrimination : Discourses in International
Context/edited by Sukhadeo Thorat and Umakant. New Delhi, Rawat, 2004, xxxv,
341 p., ISBN 81-7033-892-1.
Caste, Race and Discrimination : Discourses in International
Context/edited by Sukhadeo Thorat and Umakant. New Delhi, Rawat, 2004, xxxv,
341 p., ISBN 81-7033-892-1.
Contents: Foreword. Introduction/Sukhadeo Thorat and Umakant. I. UN and Dalit intervention: 1. UN bodies and the Dalits : a historical review of interventions/N. Paul Divakar and Ajai M. 2. (UN) touchables in Durban/Martin Macwan. II. Is caste race?: 3. The official position/Soli J. Sorabjee. 4. Race and caste/Andre Beteille. 5. Caste is not race: but, let's go to the UN forum anyway/Dipankar Gupta. 6. Dalits and Durban/P. Radhakrishnan. 7. Caste consciousness: initiate an open discussion in Durban/Andre Beteille. 8. Caste, race, politics/Dipankar Gupta. 9. Caste in the mirror of race/D.L. Sheth. 10. Race and caste: anthropological and sociological perspectives/T.K. Oommen. 11. Silence of the lambs: Durban and the Indian elite/Subhash Gatade. 12. UN Conference against racism: is caste race?/Ambrose Pinto. III. Case, race and discrimination: 13. Hidden apartheid/Teesta Setalvad. 14. Discrimination that must be cast away/Swami Agnivesh and Valson Thampu. 15. We, the other people/K.G. Kannabiran. 16. Annihilating caste/Mari Marcel Thekaekara. 17. Durban, caste and Indian democracy/Kancha Ilaiah. 18. Caste, the academy and Dalit women/Kalpana Kannabiran. 19. India's apartheid/Rajeev Dhavan. 20. Debate on discrimination: casteism is racism of another sort/Arjun Sengupta. 21. Facing up to the facts/Kuldip Nayar. 22. Caste, race and human rights/M.N. Panini. IV. Caste, race and internationalisation: 23. The UN, racism and caste/Gail Omvedt. 24. Caste and the world conference against racism/David Haslam. 25. Racial discrimination as a grave violation of human rights/P.N. Bhagwati. 26. Caste at Durban: why and how/A.S. Narang. 27. UN's record on caste rights/Siraj M. Sait. V. Dalit discourse: 28. Regaining our lost faith/Prakash Louis. 29. Caste and the UN meet/Kancha Ilaiah. 30. Politics of representation/Gopal Guru. 31. The race for caste: prolegomena to the Durban Conference/Shiv Visvanathan. 32. Durban and Dalit discourse/Shiv Visvanathan. VI. Discriminated groups in Asia and Africa: 33. Caste discrimination/Smita Narula. 34. Caste and social origin: descent-based discrimination in Asia/Sukhadeo Thorat and Umakant. VII. Post-Durban reflections: 35. What next for India's Dalits?/Mari Marcel Thekaekara. 36. Post-Durban reflections: color line-caste line/N. Paul Divakar. 37. Caste at the World Conference against racism/Peter N. Prove. Sources of Articles. Appendix. Index.
"The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), held at Durban in South Africa in 2001, led to an intense discussion on the issues of caste and race in India. The debate was catapulted to the centre stage by the demand of Dalit groups for inclusion of caste in the agenda of this conference and the different stands taken by the government and some section of civil society. The discussion with different stands in the media, academia, NGO sector and civil society generated voluminous literature.
This volume contains papers, which address issues related to caste, race and discrimination, internalization of caste, present status of Dalit and similar groups from Nepal and Japan, alternative remedies against discrimination and inequality and other such issues. This literature coming from different sources is immensely rich, insightful and reflective of the contemporary thinking of Indian society on the question of caste and Dalits.
The contributors include prominent academics, civil rights activists and writers. This volume would be immensely useful not only for the academia, the government, NGOs and researchers, but also the layman who are concerned about the issues of discrimination associated with caste and race and the deprivation suffered by the Dalits." (jacket)