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Manoj Mitta, author of Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India PUCL Conversation on
Caste Crimes, Law and the Structures of Impunity
6th October 2023,
Modern interpretation of religion speaks of right of all to worship and temple entry, but that may not have been the demand /needs of the lower castes. On 11th September 1893, Swami Vivekananda delivered an eloquent address to the Parliament of Religions in Chicago. He credited his spiritual conquest to Raja Sethupathi, the zamindar of Ramnad who supported his ideas and urged him to go to Chicago. A few months later, the same Raja was instrumental in filing a suit against a few lower-caste men who had entered a temple of which he was the hereditary trustee.
While defending varna in its original form, Vivekanand denounced untouchability. He too was a victim of caste prejudices as he had to wait for three days at the Kodungallur Bhagavathy temple in Cochin in 1892 as the temple authorities could not determine his caste.
The chapter on Temple entry provides intricate details of the legal tussle on the issue of Dalit entry into temples. It also highlights Ambedkar’s struggle to ensure that the Hindu Untouchable Castes (Removal of Disabilities) Bill of 1929, applicable in British India, would acknowledge that the untouchable was as much a rights-bearing individual as any other Hindu, whether in secular or religious spheres. The larger national politics also had an impact on the various temple entry movements and the eventual disengagement of Ambedkar with such movements.


Mihir Desai, PUCLSenior Advocate & President, PUCL Maharashtra introduces
Dr Wandana Sonalkar Indian economist, and an author and translator. She retired as Professor teaches at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai in 2017, and previously taught at the Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. Her research focuses on gender and caste in India. She has published translations of several books from Marathi to English, including the autobiographies of Urmila Pawar and R.B. More, and in 2021, she published Why I am Not a Hindu Woman, an autobiography and critique of misogyny, caste and violence in the context of the Hindu religion. The Problem of Being a Dalit in the Communist Movement https://thewire.in/caste/problem-bein...
Manoj Mitta, author of Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India
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Anand Teltumbde scholar, writer, and civil rights activist who is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management. He has written extensively about the caste system in India and has advocated for the rights of Dalits. Identity politics and the annihilation of castes http://www.india-seminar.com/2012/633....