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I: Hindu-Muslim riots

II: Switching gears — from Communalism to the bogey of  “Muslim terrorism”

III: Bomb blast investigations          

i) Mumbai Train bomb blast case of 2006 (11 July 2006)

ii) Malegaon bomb blast case (8 September 2006)

iii) Ahmedabad bomb blasts & Surat unexploded bombs (26 July 2008)

iv) Delhi bomb blast 2008 (13 September 2008)

v) Samjhauta Express bomb blast case (19 February 2007)

vi) Hyderabad Mecca Masjid Blast (18 May 2007)

vii) Ajmer Sharif Dargah Blast (11 October 2007)

viii) Serial Blasts in U.P. courts (23 November 2007)

ix) Jaipur Blasts (13 May 2008)

IV: Nanded bomb blast (5 April 2006)

V: Malegaon Bomb Blast 2008

VI: Who Killed Karkare?

Part I: The Brahminist elements in the IB and in the Naval Intelligence Directorate deliberately blocked the hot intelligence given by the U.S. and the RAW

Part II: 16 CCTVs at the CST were tampered with

Part III: The “terrorists” at CST used SIM cards which had Satara connections

Part IV: Out of the 284 calls received by the terrorists from their handlers in Pakistan by using VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol Technology), not a single call was received by Kasab and Ismail Khan

Part V: The Terrorists spoke fluent Marathi

Part VI: Out of 46 persons killed at CST, 22 were Muslims

Part VII: Karkare led to the trap

Part VIII: Ajmal Kasab was arrested in Kathmandu (Nepal) before 2006 by Indian agencies

Part IX: Much-publicised photograph of Ajmal Kasab

Part X: A woman witness forcibly taken to the U.S. for interrogation and recording her statement, but she did not budge

Part XI: Holes galore in the Mumbai Crime Branch story

A) The timing of firing at CST-CAMA

B) The number of terrorists at CST

C) The exit of the terrorists from the CST

D) The “Skoda” theory

E) The number of terrorists killed in the Girgaum Chowpatty

An alternative theory of Mumbai terror attack

I) The mystery of taxi blasts at Vile Parle and Wadi Bundar

II) An offence under the Official Secrets Act

III) The government’s anxiety to keep the Pradhan Panel report under wraps — the selective leakage of the report is a red herring

Perfect case for reinvestigation

VII: The Investigation of the Mumbai Attack case

VIII: Malegaon blast case of 2008 — Post-Mumbai attack investigation

Abhinav Bharat

Bhonsala Military School

Akanksha Resort

“Mithun Chakravorty”

Many suspects spared: Himani Savarkar, VHP leader Praveen Togadia, Three “VHP leaders” from Gujarat, A top Delhi-based leader of VHP, Dr. Sharad Kunte, Prof. Deo, Shamrao Apte, Two “well-known historians” from Pune, Milind Ekbote, former BJP Corporator, Pune , Jayant Chitale, Retd. Col

Wider network ignored

MCOCA not for Purohit & Co.

What will happen to Malegaon case next?

IX: Dubious role of Maharashtrian Brahminists

Maharashtra, the Hindutva (Brahminist) laboratory

No political leader of Maharashtra dares take on Brahminists

X: The Chargesheet against the IB

XI: Urgent measures needed to save country & society

Annexure A: Important points in respect of the specific intelligence about the Mumbai terror attack

Annexure B: The transcript of the wireless conversation

Map: A sketch of the area which witnessed major terror incidents and Hemant Karkare’s murder

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ایس ام مشرف
ریٹائرڈ انسپکٹر جنرل پولیس ، مہا راشٹر
کرکر ے کے قاتل کون؟
ہندوستان میں دہشت گردی کا اصل چہرہ
 

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ISBN-10: 81-7221-041-8;
ISBN-13: 978-81-7221-041-0;

Year: 2010
Publishers: Pharos Media Publishing Pvt Ltd

From the back cover of the book:

ہندوستان میں ریاستی اور غیر ریاستی عناصر کے ذریعہ سیاسی تشدد اور دہشت گردی کی تاریخ طویل ہے۔ 1990 کی دہائی کے وسط میں ہندتوا کے عروج کے ساتھ مسلمانوں پر ’’دہشت گردی‘‘ میں ملوّث ہونے کے الزام میں شدّت آگئی اور مرکز میں اقتدار پر بی جے پی کے قبضہ کے بعد یہ الزام سرکاری نظریہ بن گیا، یہاں تک کہ ’’سیکولر‘‘ میڈیا بھی سیکیورٹی ایجنسیوں کے اسٹونوگرافر کی طرح ان کی کہانیوں کو من وعن دہرانے لگا۔ چنانچہ مسلمانوں کے ’’دہشت گرد‘‘ قرار دئے جانے کامفروضہ اس حد تک مسلمہ نظریہ بن گیا کہ بعض مسلمان بھی اس جھوٹے پروپگنڈے کو سچ سمجھنے لگے۔
ممتاز ریٹائرڈ سینئر پولس افسر ایس ۔ام۔مشرف نے ، جن کو تیلگی اسٹامپ گھوٹالے جیسے سنگین جرم کا پردہ فاش کرنے کا امتیاز حاصل ہے، پولیس ملازمت کے اپنے طویل تجربے اور عوام کی دسترس تک پہنچنے والے مواد کو استعمال کرکے اس جھوٹے پروپگنڈے کے پردے کے پیچھے کا منظر نامہ پیش کیا ہے۔ انہوں نے کچھ انتہائی چونکا دینے والے حقائق بیان کئے ہیں اور ان کے تجزیہ نے نام نہاد ’’اسلامی دہشت گردی‘‘ کے پیچھے چھپے اصل چہرے کو بے نقاب کردیا ہے۔
یہ چہرہ ان مکروہ طاقتوںکا ہے جنہوں نے مہاراشٹر پولیس کے انسداد دہشت گردی دستے کے سربراہ ہیمنت کرکر ے کو قتل کیا۔شہید کرکرے نے جواں مردی اور حق پرستی کا مظاہرے کرتے ہوئے اصل دہشت گردوں کو بے نقاب کیا تھا اور اس کی قیمت اپنی جان کا نذرانہ پیش کرکے ادا کی۔ کتاب میں دہشت گردی کے چند بڑے واقعات کا گہرائی سے جائزہ لیا گیاہے جن کو ’’ اسلامی دہشت گردی‘‘ سے منسوب کیا گیاہے اور اس مفروضے کو بے بنیاد ثابت کیا ہے۔
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Table of Content:

Contents Vol. 1
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Constitutional and Legislative Provisions Regarding the Minorities
Chapter III Religious Minorities and their Status
Chapter IV Linguistic Minorities and their Status
Chapter V Status of Women among Minorities
Chapter VI Criteria for Identifying backward Sections among Religious Minorities
Chapter VII Measures for Welfare and Development of Minorities
Chapter VIII Reservation as a Welfare Measure
Chapter IX Demands for amending Constitution (SC) Order, 1950
Chapter X Recommendations and Modalities for their Implementation
Note of Dissent by Member - Secretary
Note on Dissent Note (written by Member Dr T Mahmood and endorsed by Chairman & other two members)
Appendices
1. Texts of the Government Resolutions and Notifications
2. List of Workshops sponsored by the Commission
3. List of Studies sponsored by the Commission
4. Names of the States/UTs visited by the Commission
5. Contents of Volume II
6. Sex Ratio of Population: 1991 and 2001 and 0-6 years: 2001
7. Schedule of Socio-economic Parameters

Contents Vol. 2
Questionnaires Sent
Questionnaries sent to States/UTs
Supplementary Questionnaire sent to States/UTs
Questionnaire sent to Districts
Questionnaire sent to Selected Colleges
Format Regarding Collection of Information/Data on Developmental/
Welfare Schemes/Programmes for Religious and Linguistic Minorities from Ministries/Departments
Proceedings of the Meeting of the Secretaries, Minorities Welfare/ Minorities Development Departments of the State Governments
and Union Territory Administrations held on 13th July, 2005
List of Community Leaders/Religious Leaders With Whom the Commission held Discussions
Findings & Recommendations of Studies Sponsored by the Commission
A Study on Socio-Economic Status of Minorities -Factors Responsible for their backwardness
Educational Status of Minorities and Causes for their Backwardness andIdentification of Socio-Economic Indicators for Backwardness
Role of Madrasa Education in Mainstreaming Muslims into Educational System
Rapid Assessment of the Role of Financial Institutions in the Upliftment of Minorities in the Country
Aspirations and Career Plans of Children of Religious Minority
Role of Religious Educational Institutions in the Socio-Economic
Development of the Community
Selection of Criteria and Identification of Social and Economic Backwardness among Religious Minorities
Educational Status of Religious and Linguistic Minorities in India
Religious Minorities in India - A Situational Analysis
Findings & Recommendations of Workshops Sponsored by the Commission
Issues Concerning Disadvantaged Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists
Linguistic Minorities
“Reservation Policy - Assessment of Impact”
Issues Concerning Disadvantaged Christians
Annexures to the Report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities
Conferment of SC Status to Persons Converted to Christianity and Islam
Depoliticising Backwardness – Alternative Approaches
Issues Concerning Disadvantaged Muslims
Communication to States/UTs Seeking their views on SCs Convert to Christianity/Islam
Public Notice regarding SC converts to Christianity/Islam
Names of the States/UTs visited by the Commission
Summary of the Report on the Visit to the State of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Summary of the Report on the Visit to the State of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan

Government of India

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Based on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh documents  

by Shamsul Islam

32 pages p/b
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ISBN-10: 81-7221-039-6;
ISBN-13: 978-81-7221-039-7
Year: 2010
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Table of Content:
Introduction
Is it true that the RSS idolizes fascism & Hitler?
Is RSS loyal to National Flag?
Is RSS loyal to Constitution of India?
Does RSS have faith in Democracy, Secularism and Federalism?
Why was RSS banned after the murder of Gandhiji?
Did RSS support the Freedom Movement?
Does RSS respect martyrs of the Freedom Movement like Bhagat Singh?
How does non-political RSS manipulate national politics?
Is BJP independent of RSS?
Is RSS helping organizations like ISI?
Does RSS believe in Two-Nation Theory like pre-Partition Muslim League?
Endnotes

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Representing Indian Muslims:
Selected Parliamentary Speeches of 
Asaduddin Owaisi

Edited by Mohammed Ayub Ali Khan
112 pages p/b, 
ISBN 81-7221-035-3; 
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From the back cover of the book: Asaduddin Owaisi is one of the most articulate members in Lok Sabha. India Today rated him among the most articulate among the young MPs early in 2007. His legal education at London University and Lincoln’s Inn and advance preparation before delivering speeches impressed many from the treasury benches, one of them being Mani Shankar Aiyar. He once told the present writer that he teasingly said to Asaduddin Owaisi that he is in the wrong party! His talents are needed in Congress!

As the only member of a small party in Lok Sabha, his turn to speak often comes late in the day when the house is full. Owaisi takes advantage of the opportunity to speak eloquently. Barrister Owaisi is often on the various TV channels participating with eloquence. A perusal of Indian newspapers in English, Telugu and Urdu reveals an MP ever present at every occasion concerning the community: meetings with police officials, state government ministers, municipal authorities and so on. As a keen observer of Indian Muslim scene for last 30 years, I hope that he will further excel by delivering speeches armed with facts and figures.

 - Dr Omar Khalidi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contents
Chapter 1 Development and Violence
Chapter 2 Minority Education
Chapter 3 Protection of Human Rights
Chapter 4 Economic Development
Chapter 5 Parliamentary Standards
Chapter 6 Communal Violence 
Chapter 7 Prevention of terrorism 
Chapter 8 Minority Rights and Education
Chapter 9 Union Budget
Chapter 10 Constitutional Amendment
Chapter 11 Babri Masjid
Chapter 12 Disaster Management Bill
Chapter 13 Double standards
Chapter 14 Right to Information
Chapter 15 Electoral Reforms
Chapter 16 Budget 2005-2006
Chapter 17 Internal Security
Chapter 18 POTA
Chapter 19 Budget 2004-2005

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Terrorism: 
Facts versus Myths

By Ram Puniyani
96 pages p/b, 
ISBN 81-7221-033-7; 
Publishers: Pharos Media & Publ. Pvt. Ltd.

The phenomenon of terrorism has many dimensions to it and it has been the major bane of current times. The propaganda by the dominant power and section of media has succeeded in associating this menace to a particular religion and religious community. This booklet takes up these popular notions and myths and tries to unravel the truth of this phenomenon through facts, photographs and cartoons.

Table of Contents
1. Terrorism and Muslims. 
2. Islamic Tag
3. Terrorist violence and Religion
4. Clash of Civilizations
5. War on terror
6. Islam and Violence
7. Democracy and Islam
8. Islam and Fundamentalism
9. RSS and Terrorism
10. RSS fights against Terror! 

Bibliography US military Intervention 
References 
Further Reading

Appendices: 
A. A Moment of silence
B. War Crimes Tribunal in Afghanistan 
C. International Tribunal on War Crimes in Iraq 
D. Civilizations Clash or Alliance 
E. Al Qaeda or Al Fayda 
F. ABC of Jihad in Afghanistan Roots of Global Terror

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Golwalkar's We or Our Nationhood Defined
A Critique with the full text of the book

By Shamsul Islam
200 pages p/b, 
ISBN 81-7221-030-2; 
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This book attempts to put across actual facts about Golwalkar's life and beliefs in the light of his original writings, publications of the RSS, documents available in its archives and many other RSS documents the writer collected over the last 35 years from different parts of the country, specially the original text of Golwalkar's book We or Our Nationhood Defined (1939) which is being reproduced in this book. It is the most important text in order to understand the RSS' concept of Hindu state, and has not been available after 1947.

Shamsul Islam teaches Political Science in Satyawati College, University of Delhi. As an author, columnist and street theatre activist he is known for his unrelenting opposition to religious intolerance, dehumanization, imperialism and persecution of women, Dalits and minorities.

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Islamic Company Law
A Comparative Juristic Analysis 

By Prof Mustafa A. A. Roshash (LLB, LLM, PhD)

302 pages p/b 
ISBN 81-7221-025-6
Year: 2005
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...The demands made by Muslim masses on their leaders to apply Islamic law in its entirety makes it imperative for researchers to refer to the original books of Islamic jurisprudence to compile comprehensive material on issues scantily covered before. Islamic economics, particularly company laws, the subject of this book is among the less studied issues, compared with other issues, though it is a reality in the Muslim world now....[From the introduction of the book]

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Azab-e-Humsaigi (The Agony Trail)

(with English Translation) 

By Feza Aazmi

224 pages p/b (109 English + 115 Urdu)
ISBN 81-7221-028-0
Year: 2005
Publishers: Pharos Media & Publ. Pvt. Ltd.

.....Fortunately, such men and women exist and continue to raise their voices against the destructive power of hatred. The latest example is poet Feza Aazmi of Karachi. He is a Mohajir, a refugee from Uttar Pradesh, now a Pakistani. His latest masnavi (epic poem) Azab-e-Humsaigi (The Agony Trail) deals with the ups and downs of Indo-Pak relations....
                            -  Khushwant Singh  

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HINDUTVA

Treason and Terrorism 

By I K SHUKLA

184 pages p/b 
ISBN 81-7221-026-4
Year: 2005
Publishers: Pharos Media & Publ. Pvt. Ltd.

The threat of totalitarian theocracy engulfing the land is looming lethal and large on the socio-political landscape of India. It is not only the minorities, the putative “others”, who are targeted as victims but also all kinds of dissenters and independents. This is where the nation appears hanging on the brink of an abyss. The fact is, both demographically and ideologically, it is not the non-Hindus or the independents who are in a minority. It is the fascists, swaddled in saffron, who constitute the minority. And, to overcome this handicap, the saffron minority, like all fascist formations in history, resorts to massive vandalism and violence on a regular basis. Sowing division and discord, therefore, is essential to its unholy project, entailing social disruption and endangering national security.  Click to read full review of this book

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An authoritative work on 
the most misunderstood 
term in Islamic economics

By IQBAL AHMAD KHAN SUHAIL

208 pages p/b 
ISBN 81-7221-023-X
Year: 2005
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“No book other than this one is more authoritative and comprehensive on the issue.”
— Al-Mazahib monthly, Lahore

“It is possible to disagree with the author's theory of Riba, but he has put across his points of view very authoritatively, backed by proofs which cannot at all be refuted.”
— Weekly Nai Duniya, New Delhi

“In view of the importance and usefulness of the book, its study is necessary for the social and economic welfare of the Muslim community. Presence of this book in the libraries of our schools and colleges will be very useful.”
— Daily Salar, Bangalore

“This book will certainly help in the research and arrival at a consensus about the issue of Riba.”
— Monthly Ma'arif, Azamgarh

A number of works deal with the issue of riba (usury) in Islam, but none of them is as comprehensive as this work which first appeared in 1936. This new edited version, together with Arabic and English translations, has been brought out in order to enrich the debate on this vital issue.
The author, Allamah Iqbal Suhail (d. 1955), was a highly learned scholar of Islam and had deep knowledge of modern issues. He is known in the Subcontinent as a distinguished Urdu poet, freedom fighter and lawyer. With this background, he was most suited to deal with religious issues in the light of the requirements of the modern age.
Allamah Suhail discusses the opinions of the fuqaha in detail and shows that they confused riba with muratala (barter) and sarf (exchange) which have little to do with riba. He shows that riba concerns only the bai al-salaf (credit/deferred) transactions. After a thorough discussion of the Islamic texts on the issue, Suhail puts forward his authoritative definition of riba and where it is applicable.  

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112 pp. (PB) 

In all wars victors have written the final script# that we read today. US-British invasion of Iraq will not be different.
The Iraq war story remains untold especially from the victims’ point of view. We can conclude from what little we know now that the fight of unequals was not without brave resistance. 
Some of this precious information is found in this booklet which contains daily reports about the war prepared by experts of the Russian Military Intelligence until the infuriated Americans brought it to a halt.

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ISBN-10: 81-7221-021-3;
ISBN-13: 978-81-7221-021-2
Year: 2010
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Qadianism, or Ahmadism as its followers call it, was a rebellion against Islam - a sort of fifth column to destroy Islam from within. It was a British imperialist need to blunt Muslim resistance to the colonial power. The founder of the new faith, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, was never ashamed of his services to the British Empire.
Over the years a lie has been spread in the Subcontinent the Iqbal, the great poet-philosopher of the Orient and an ardent defender of pristine Islam, was a Qadiani himself! This lie has been lapped up by the Hindutva press in India.
This work shows that on the contrary Iqbal was forcefully opposed to Qadianism and regarded it as a rebellion against Islam. Here he responds to certain observation of Pandit Nehru (which are also reproduced).

Iqbal's observations remain as relevant today as ever: they will help you understand why Muslims react so strongly against similar recent characters like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen...

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96 pp.

'The article contains objectionable material which is violative of sections 124A and 505(b) of the Indian Penal Code.' 
FIR 18 March 1985
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'The accused are....acquitted of the charges framed against them in this case'
Judgement 25 July 2000

It is not a simple line that divides the two sentences above, but a traumatic and painful story spread over one and a half decades.
If hands of persons like SP Vishnoi and AS Khullar continue to be the custodians of secularism in our country, countless Sherwanis, Rizvis and Waraqwalas will have similar anguished tales to tell in future. A single sweeping and irresponsible remark will be enough to spoil the better part of the life of a citizen.. And the Constitution with all its lofty ideals like the fundamental rights and directive principles will remain mute spectator. This is the story of one such ordeal.

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Dateline Godhra
By Jyoti Punwani and others

68 pp.

The burning of Coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002 at Godhra railway station continues to raise questions. Was it a conspiracy? Who did it and why? Get all your questions answered.

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There is a mother called Somalia. She is emotional, weeping, bleeding; humiliated by her own sons. They gang-raped her, committing the crime of incest. Whenever she is sufficiently recovered from her ordeal to rise to collect food for her sons, they again gang-rape her. After this humiliation, she struggles up again, driven by the force of a mother’s tenderness. She tries to prepare food for them. They cannot wait because they are too impatient. They loot the food before it can be cooked. Their mother repeatedly suffers for their sake and begs them to teach themselves to be organized, disciplined and develop respect for humanity but they remain wedded to chaos and blundering. This is a mother who desperately needs to be rescued from her own sons’ monstrous deeds.

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Year: 2010
Publishers: Vergal Publication, Chennai

After 52 years of struggle, a well known dalit leader in Tamil Nadu, T. M. Mani, accepted Islam. The English version of his book is "End of Casteism". Mr. T.M. Mani waged a long war against casteism and caste atrocities. He fought ferociously for 52 years and at the end, accepted Islam. His struggle's sufferings and achievements are detailed in this book.

Back cover of the book: Following those friends, I too have integrated myself with the path of Islam. I have accepted the all powerful one Allah. The caste system which had given untold miseries and hardships, humiliations and indignities has been thus destroyed.

Table of Contents
Chapter – 1: VANA DURGA
Chapter – 2: THE RIGHT TO BURY DEAD BODIES
Chapter – 3: COLLECTOR GANGAPPA
Chapter – 4: MURDER CASE – IMPRISONMENT
Chapter – 5: Dr. AMBEDKAR
Chapter – 6: CONVERSION TO A DIFFERENT RELIGION

Preface
We did not expect a downpour that night. There were heavy showers accompanied by thunder and lightning. Three of us were curling round in three corners in the pial of that dilapidated choultry. We were almost completely drenched by the rains. I thought we could take shelter in the huts near the choultry for a while and asked Chinna Pappa for her opinion. She was two years younger than us. Could be about ten years.

“No Anna, they are all velalars. They knew our caste. All these days they were moving with me freely touching and playing, only yesterday Meenatchi asked me about our caste. I thought they also belonged to our caste and told her our caste. She passed on the information to everybody and from yesterday nobody speaks with me.

“Why did you tell them?” I asked.

“I don’t know that they wee velalars. I thought that they too belonged to our caste and so told them.”

Chinna Pappa felt guilty. Even at that time there was some light in the tea shop which was a little away. “We shall request them to permit us to sleep here for a while. Then only we can go to work tomorrow.” I said. “They know about our caste, don’t they?”, asked Chinna Pappa.

“when I went to get tea in the afternoon they asked me. I said Odda Chettiar. Therefore, they will permit us.” Said Thangavelu, who was nearby. Our hopes were not belied.

The rains now were a light drizzle. All the three of us did not change clothes. A ‘shorts’ below and a towel above were our clothes. Chinna Pappa used to have a skirt and a blouse and also an upper garment. Like a boy she used to work with us regularly. A few years later she was given in marriage to someone whose ill-treatment she could not bear and so she committed suicide.

The distance between the place where we worked and our huts was about ten kilometres. Many people would return home after finishing the day’s work. Saying that I need not strain myself, my mother asked me to stay in the choultry itself.

She used to send me gruel with those who were coming to work in the morning. This was the food for me throughout the day. For Thangavelu who was working with us and Chinna Pappa also stayed with me in the choultry. We were six children to our parents. When the child, my younger brother, was born, my mother stopped my primary schooling so that I could take care of him. I had to take him to the place where mother was working and after he was suckled to bring him back to our hut. If mother went to a different village for work, I too had to go and take care of my brother. If he felt sleepy, I had to use mother’s old saree, tie it up as a swing from the tree and make him sleep.

When the younger brother began to walk about, I was sent to work for daily wages. It was during those days that I had to live in places like choultries and lead life like a stray dog or fox.

If fact even in places where a dog, fox, pig, lamb or cow could move about freely, we wee not allowed to move about. That is because we are untouchables. We had to carry on with such a degradation and shame. Yes, we learnt about Thanthai Periyar and Ambedkar right from our very early childhood. This is a blessing which our forefathers did not have. They believed that their woes were due to Destiny, Fate, etc. They never raised the questions, “Why?”, “What for?”. They accepted the caste based social order without any resistance. Or, they were used to it.

Many of Our ancestors were so afraid of the dominant upper castes that they ran away from the village and nothing was known about their fate afterwards. My grandfather’s grandfather one Alagan ran fearing the wrath of a big landlord and settled in this place. And, of course, Vaithi’s son Perumal and thereafter Perumal’s son Muthu – he was my father: all these people, one by one were leading a life of slavery on the same farm.

When for the sixth generation my turn came to serve as a alave in that agricultural farm, our family was caught in the maelstrom of Indian independence of “Velliane, veliyeru” (Quit India). When crores of people who were treated as worse than dogs and untouchables even in the twentieth century we got freedom for Indian. In the elections our family wanted its votes to be cast for the Congress Party’s symbol, the bull, in the ballot box. Our landlord Manickam Pillai, a Justice Party leader got angry on this score. He threw all of us out from even that slavish work he was providing. This is how democracy in free India helped us.

(For generation after generation, leading a life of slavery and eking out a bare existence with half-filled stomachs – ) even this himself to the landlord all his life spent his last years in hunger and then died of starvation. My mother and father could not find some other farm to lock themselves up as slaves and went about, town after town, in search of some work on daily wages. It is in that background that I had spent my young days. Wherever we went, the phrase, “Move away”, simply haunted our minds. In Temples, temple tanks, Agraharams (living quarters of Brahmins), tea-shops and even in places where water is provided to quench thirst. Water is given freely, we were denied admission.

On the one hand such an insulting life and on the other side thoughts of Ambedkar and Periyar’s self-respect. In between we were seized of the realities of life. This book outlines a few of those sufferings and struggles in an atmosphere of dejection and frustration. The incidents and the theme of the book are equally applicable to crores of Dalits in our Mother India.

T.M. Mani,
Founder,
Dalit Blue Tigers Movement
 

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