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- Being African in India: 'We are seen as demons'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
After a year in India, Zaharaddeen Muhammed, 27, knows enough Hindi to understand what bander means. Monkey. But it isn't even the daily derogatory comments that make him doubt his decision to swap his university in Nigeria for a two-year master's degree programme in chemistry at Noida International University. Nor is it the questions about personal hygiene, the unsolicited touching of his hair or the endless staring. It is his failure to interact with Indian people on a deeper level.
- 'Dalit movement has to see itself as part of a class-wide movement'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Following the death of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit scholar from Hyderabad Central University, several thousand students in India came together in protest. The incident also sparked spontaneous, nationwide mobilisation of Dalits, many of whom were already engaged in local struggles. Around the same time a strong criticism of the mainstream Left emerged that pointed to its perceived indifference to Dalit causes and, more broadly, caste-based discrimination in India. Here in the U.S., we see Black Lives Matter — a campaign against violence targeting black people in the U.S. — that has become a prominent movement in the last few years, drawing enormous attention and support. All the same, some activists within the movement are said to be questioning the exclusive emphasis on racial identity. Are there any parallels?
- India and the Third World
Altruism or Hegemony?
Resource Type: Book
A study of Indian foreign policy concentrating on the political and economic forces which shaped the country's external relations.
- Jai Bhim Comrade
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
India’s Dalit (oppressed) castes were abhorred as “untouchables”. The film, shot over 14 years follows the music of protest of Maharashtra's Dalits. In an age of increasing bigotry and superstition, it is both a record of recent history as well as eloquent testimony to a tradition that has survived amongst the subaltern for thousands of years.
- A Lavish Bollywood Musical Is Fueling A Culture War In India
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Review of the controversial 2018 Bollywood film "Padmaavat". Qureshi summarises the politically charged campaign of misinformation and resulting sectarian violence that has dogged its release.
- The Loneliest Library in the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
At 73, P.V. Chinnathambi runs one of the loneliest libraries anywhere. In the middle of the forested wilderness of Kerala’s Idukki district, the library’s 160-books — all classics — are regularly borrowed, read, and returned by poor, Muthavan adivasis.
- Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World
The Derivative Discourse
Resource Type: Book
A leading Indian political philosopher criticizes Western liberal and Marxist theories of Third World nationalism. He also provides a profound exploration of its central contradiction: setting out to assert its freedom from European domination, it yet remained a prisoner of European post-Enlightenment rationalist discourse.
- Untouchable!
Voices of a Liberation Movement
Resource Type: Book
Over 100 million Indians today are Dalits ("Untouchables"). This volume comprises a unique collection of writings by Dalit authors - political activists, social scientists, journalists, and others. They demonstrate that Untouchability is an everyday social reality in India, and that Dalits are not passively accepting their fate: a large and diverse movement of resistance is taking shape.
- Why is India so bad for women?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
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