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PG Orientation on 22nd July 2021:

DISMANTLING THE MYTH OF BRAHMINICAL MERIT

Prohibited Casteist Slurs against SC/ST/OBC communities

Basis for this document is this YouTube Video

Language List of Slurs
General Slurs Junglee, mahar, chuhra, adivasi, yanaadi, maharki, kathodi, lambadi,,chambar chokhashi, yerukalollu, khoode wala, ghaati, kanjar, dhedgujari, dhobi,chandal,pariah, mahar, kanjar, bhand, Malech/Mlechcha, napit, chink
Hindi Slurs Daliddar, dalidr, chamaar, chamayin (feminine), paasi, bhangi, kanjar, malech, dhobi, harijan, kameena, kameeni (feminine), chandaal, bhand, junglee, kasaayi, naayi, Chuhda
Telugu Slurs chandaalam, nakkalolla panulu, mahla madiga, , madiga, maala, budabukkala, maaloda, madigoda, maala lanjakodaka, dappuna kodaka, sancharina kodaka, mala mokamdana
Tamil Slurs para, chandala, sakkiliya, nadhari, korava, pandaram, domar, cheri
Kannada Slurs Vaḍḍa nan maganē,hajāma, dombarāṭa āta adabeda, koḷegēri sūḷemakḷu, tōṭige huṭṭidavane, hole mādiga, dhana thinuavanu
Dogri & bhaderwahi Slurs CHURHA, CHAMAR, DOOM, CHANAL, WATAL, BHANDD, BHANGI
Gujarati slurs para, chandala, sakkiliya, nadhari, korava, pandaram, domar, cheri
Racial slurs derogatory to NE people Chinki, Chinese, Momo, Chowmein, Corona (Corona-carriers), Chutiya, Junglee, Are you Indian, Alien, Dkhar, Miya, Mayang

Reading List on Caste:

Must Read:

  1. Annihilation of caste - Dr. Ambedkar (multiple copies)
  2. Waiting for Visa - Dr. Ambedkar
  3. Revolution and Counter Revolution in India - Dr. Ambedkar
  4. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches
  5. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir - Yashica Dutt
  6. Caste matters - Suraj yengde
  7. Why I hid my caste - Baburao bagul
  8. Jhoothan - Om prakash Valmiki
  9. A weave of my life - A Dalit women memoirs by Urmila Pawar
  10. Slavery - Jotirao Phule
  11. Seeking begumpura - Gail Omvedt
  12. Merit of Caste - Ajanta Subramanium

Optional Read:

  1. Akkarmashi by Tulsidas
  2. Biographies of Phule ravidas and Babu jagjevan kushwaha
  3. Sarvajanik Satya Dharma by Phule
  4. Why were women enslaved Thanthai Periyar
  5. "The Language of the Gods in the World of Men"
  6. "Towards a Political Philology: D. D. Kosambi and Sanskrit"
  7. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History
  8. "The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History"
  9. "Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture"
  10. "An Introduction to the Study of Indian History"
  11. Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism- Kancha Iliah Shepherd
  12. Dispersed Radiance by Prof Abha Sur
  13. Riddles of Hinduism Ambedkar
  14. Buddha and his Dhamma Ambedkar
  15. Who were the shudras Ambedkar
  16. What Gandhi and Congress has done to untouchables Ambedkar
  17. The untouchables, who were they and why they became untouchables Ambedkar
  18. Buddha or Karl Marx Ambedkar
  19. Distinction Pierre Bourdieu
  20. Forms of capital Pierre Bourdieu
  21. Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
  22. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  23. Feminism is for everybody Bell Hooks
  24. We should all be feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  25. Sapiens Yuval Noah Hari
  26. Mutual Aid Peter Kropotkin
  27. Ayyankali: A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest Meena Kandasamy
  28. Listen to my case Chandru
  29. We also made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement by meenakshi moon and urmila pawar
  30. Poisioned bread -Arjun Dangle
  31. Strike a blow to change the world -Eknath Awad