[Reader-list] [Announcements] ZESTCaste begins 18 Sept 2004: Join now

[Shivam]

  ZESTCaste: Documenting India's Journey to De-casteisation

  Mailing and discussion list begins 18 September 2004 
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestcaste/


Unreported caste discrimination, exclusion and violence, caste
politics, affirmative action, metropolitan apathy towards caste issues
are some of the contours of the present state of India's ancient
system of apartheid called caste. ZESTCaste is a no-holds-barred
mailing list to reflect contemporary discourses on the subject,
promote new thinking, and make accessible the research done on caste
over decades.

Although the intent of this list is activist, and indeed it will be of
great use to human rights activists, ZESTCaste will give space to all
shades of opinion on the subject, reflecting not just both the upper-
and 'lower'-caste views, but also the differences within them.

The list will also reflect the increasingly high-brow Dalit activism
being carried out by such eminent caste activists as Udit Raj,
Chandrabhan Prasad, Kancha Ilaiah, VT Rajshekhar, Gopal Guru and S.
Anand. Attempts will be made to understand the politics of caste
leaders such as Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party, and the OBC
leaders Mulayam Singh and Laloo Prasad Yadav.

ZESTCaste will also give space to news reports about caste issues, as
well as the academic research by scholars who hide themselves in
universities.

The list is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestcaste/

It will begin operations on Saturday, 18 September 2004. To subscribe,
if you have a Yahoo! ID, visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestcaste/join/

If you do not have a Yahoo! ID, just send a blank mail to
zestcaste-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

Please circulate this announcement widely.



Other ZEST Groups:


  ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestcurrent/
  zestcurrent-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

  ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zest-economics/
  zest-economics-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

  ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestpoets 
  zestpoets-subscribe at yahoogroups.com



  Issued by Shivam Vij, Delhi, for The ZEST Groups
  shivamvij at gmail.com | Friday, 10 September 2004
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