Kannada Caste book gets big welcome
OUR CORRESPONDENT

Bangalore: Glad to announce the publication of the first language edition of our Editor's international award-winning book, Caste — A Nation Within the Nation, translated to Kannada by a reputed Kannada scholar, Dr. Banjagere Jayaprakash.

The book (160 pages) priced at Rs. 140 is titled Jati — Rashtradolagondu Rashtra.

It carries an Afterword by Dr. Jayaprakash.

Meanwhile, a noted socio-cultural organisation of Bangalore, Bahu Mukhi, headed by Ms. Sujata Kumta, a noted journalist and writer, has decided to organise a function in Bangalore to release the book and hold a day-long seminar on the book.

Another organisation headed by Advocate Hanif and Dalit leader Deekaiah of Mangalore have decided to hold a similar function at Mangalore Town Hall on June 26 (Sunday).

Copies of the Kannada book available at DV office.
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London Institute of South Asia
Lisa International Award - 2005 (Citation) for the most impactful book by a South Asia
Awarded to V.T. Rajshekar For his ground-breaking book
Caste — A Nation Within the Nation

"Recognising the impact the book has made by revealing and asserting that Manu's four-tier Caste System is for the Hindus who are only 15 per cent of the population of the present day India. The castes of the Bahujan — the native peoples of India who are 65 per cent of the population — are their national (ethnic) identity. The Aryan, who conquered and colonised India 3,500 years ago, imposed the Brahminic Caste System, Untouchability and Apartheid on the native peoples by embracing their gods but at a level lower in hierarchy than their own and thus extending their accursed racist system and giving it religious sanction.

The book transformed the Indian political scene by urging Dalits to renounce their Hindu identity but feel proud of their ethnic identity (jati) and vote for their jatwalas in elections. The book empowered the long oppressed Bahujan and helped them gain prominence in politics and share in power".
London
April 30, 2005.
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AUTHENTIC VOICES OF SOUTH ASIA
Editor: Usman Khalid
Published by
London Institute of South Asia
2005 pp.345 £10 paper back (rs.800), £ 15 (hardbound)
For DV family members (inside India) concession (half price) is given.
Rs. 350 for paper back and Rs. 400 for hardbound.
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