Directory of Caste and Communal Issues Resources

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Websites concerned with 'casteism' and the political and other issues surrounding caste and communal interaction and conflict in the country.

Resources in This Category

• Broken People

  http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/india/
  A detailed account by Human Rights Watch of the extent and means of discrimination against lower castes.

• Caste in India

  http://adaniel.tripod.com/confusion.htm
  An explanation of the caste system in history, and modern practice.

• Caste Problem in India

  http://www.dlshq.org/messages/caste.htm
  Swami Vivekananda, with a partial justification of the caste system. Denies that the system is a product of religion, and ascribes it to other social factors.

• Caste System in Bengal

  http://tanmoy.tripod.com/bengal/caste.html
  A brief account of how the system developed in Bengal, with some notes on the differences from the rest of India.

• Caste System in Modern India

  http://adaniel.tripod.com/modernindia.htm
  Read about the caste system prevailing in modern India.

• Castes of India

  http://adaniel.tripod.com/castes.htm
  An overview of the caste system, and additional notes on history, its place in modern India, and its relevance to untouchables and non-Hindus.

• CounterCurrents.org Communalism

  http://www.countercurrents.org/communalism.htm
  Collection of articles, comments and analyses on the issues.

• Dalits & Human Rights : The Battles Ahead

  http://www.pucl.org/from-archives/Dalit-tribal/battles1.htm
  First of a set of articles by P. Sainath on the position of Dalits in the country in the 1990's.

• Hindu History - The Emergence of the Caste System (The Jati-Varna Matrix)

  http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/castejati-varna.html
  Account of the emergence of the hierarchical caste system by Sudheer Birodkar, with parallels drawn with class systems in other regions.

• Indian Parliament Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

  http://164.100.24.208/ls/committee/p23.htm
  Reports on the activities, constitution and membership of this group, and reports produced by it recently.

• Sub-Castes Among Dalits

  http://www.ambedkar.org/culture/SubCastes_Among_Dalits.htm
  On the political issues around the existence of subcastes among Dalits and scheduled castes.

• The Caste System in Hinduism

  http://www.friesian.com/caste.htm
  A basic introduction to the caste system, including an account of its religious justification.

• The Hindu : Politics of 'hereditary' crime

  http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2001/09/09/stories/13090291.htm
  Article on the 'Criminal Tribes Act' and its legacy in the form of communities that continue to be considered inherently criminal by the authorities.

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