[Reader-list] Fwd: Re: Protest (on April 1st) SC's stay on OBC reservationand brainstorm about how to furtherr Social Justice!

[burton cleetus]

Dear Vedprakash
 
One of the most serious objections 
raised by the SC with regard to 
OBC reservation, is the method of 
determining the status of caste 
based on 1931 census.

 Yes the last census that gave any 
indication to the position of caste 
and their human development indices in 
india was the 1931 census. From 1881 to 
1931 caste was the basic criteria in 
the tabulation and analysis 
of the social position of
 the different sections of the sub-continent.
 
The outbreak of the second world 
in 1939, limited the scope of tabulation of the 1941
census with no serious analysis or interpretation.

After independence, the new political and bureaucratic
authorities of the "new" nation decided to do away
with the idea of caste on any categorisation in census

records. This was because Caste seemed for them a
derogatory term in the new context. 

Post independence enumeration details
thereby complicated the whole census tables and
thereby failed to arrive at 
any meaning ful analysis on the social 
condition of different caste groups in India. 
 
There is no analysis in census records 
from 1931 onwards does not mean that 
caste as a social category, with its accompanying
social maladies have dissapeared 
and an 'egalitarian system was established' 
after 1931. 

For the lower castes the idea of the 
new state to avoid the "category of caste" 
in census records thereby closed any serious 
analysis on their social position. In a sense, for
them, 
the new methodology was like 
being thrown from frying pan to fire!
 
Burton


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> Vedprakash Sharma <vedprakash.sharma at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>   it looks as if I went through the mail of a
> political leader. in my humble 
> opinion, the SC has raised some very genuine
> objections. without a 
> scientific analysis of the problem of reservation,
> one should not draw 
> conclusions. we may have different views over it but
> the logic must prevail 
> and the same should decide the criterion of the
> reservation.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shivam Vij" 
> To: "sarai list" 
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:30 PM
> Subject: [Reader-list] Protest (on April 1st) SC's
> stay on OBC 
> reservationand brainstorm about how to furtherr
> Social Justice!
> 
> 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Satinath Choudhary 
> >
> > Dear friends from Delhi and close by,
> >
> > I am sorry for this late call! However, Emergency
> situation created
> > by our upper caste Supreme Court does not give us
> the luxury of
> > planning with plenty of time in our hands. Let us
> meet this Sunday,
> > April 1st, 2007, at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, between
> 11 am to 1 pm, and
> > accomplish a number of objectives in one shot!
> >
> > (a) Demo on Sunday, April 1st, 2007, at Jantar
> Mantar, Delhi,
> > between 11 am to 1 pm against Supreme Court's stay
> OBC's reservation
> > in higher education;
> >
> > (b) Brainstorm about declaring the month of April
> as Social Justice
> > month. Social Justice month may attract
> participation and organizing
> > on the part of STs, OBCs, and minorities, not many
> of whom have been
> > organizing Ambedkar's birth anniversary;
> >
> > (c) Brainstorm about how to further the cause of
> social justice;
> > in particular, how to democratize the court,
> especially the Supreme
> > Autocratic Upper Caste.
> >
> > (d) Brainstorm about a bigger event by the end of
> April to further
> > the cause of social justice
> >
> > If you have any suggestion with regard to any of
> the above
> > mentioned things, please feel free to call me (at
> 9350041088) or write
> > to me at satichou2 at yahoo.com.
> >
> > Dalit Voice Silver Jubilee Celebration Committee,
> Delhi invites you
> > to join a daylong discussion and debate to mark
> the occasion of 25
> > glorious years of Dalit Voice. Those of us who
> feel that Dalit Voice
> > has contributed immensely to develop a new dynamic
> Ambedkarite
> > movement would like to take this debate further.
> >
> > On April 8th, 2006, from 10 am to 5:30 pm, we all
> join hand to
> > facilitate Dalit Voice for its wonderful journey.
> The daylong
> > programme is organized at the Gandhi Peace
> Foundation, Deen Dayal
> > Upadhyay Marg, Near ITO, New Delhi.
> >
> > Dalit Voice Silver Jubilee Celebration Committee:
> Rajni Tilak,
> > Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Ashok Bharati, Satinath
> Choudhary, Abhimook
> > Nayak,
> >
> > Contacts: vbrawat at gmail.com,
> rajni.nacdor at gmail.com, satichou2 at yahoo.com
> > Telephone nos: 9871441261, 011-65902846, 22462528
> (V.B.Rawat),
> > 9871514040 ( Rajni Tilak) and 9350041088
> (Satinath).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Satinath
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