‘Freedom fighters were not necessarily caste equality champions’: Writer Manoj Mitta
An interview with Manoj Mitta, author of ‘Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India’.
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Read: Manoj Mitta on Why Caste-Based Violence Continues With Impunity in India
Discussing his latest book with Sravasti Dasgupta, Manoj Mitta says that whenever there is an instance of mass violence, one arm or another of the Indian state has betrayed caste prejudice.
https://thewire.in/caste/manoj-mitta-caste-based-violence-impunity-interview
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Watch: 'Violence Against Dalits in Post-Independent India Not Seen in Gandhi or Ambedkar's Lifetime'
Manoj Mitta speaks to The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta to unpack these legal battles to provide a wider lens to understand why caste based inequality endures and caste-based violence continues with impunity, despite the Constitutional guarantee of equality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfgUZsBzQuU
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Audio: Why laws have not ended caste violence in India, with Manoj Mitta
Sandip Roy talks to journalist Manoj Mitta, who in his latest book ‘Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India’ examines the resilience and violence of the Hindu caste system through the legal lens, and ends up uncovering the controversies and decisions that have shaped the fight against caste.
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In this episode, Sandip Roy talks to journalist Manoj Mitta, who in his latest book 'Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India' examines the resilience and violence of the Hindu caste system through the legal lens.
Book Review: Manoj Mitta's 'The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra'
Narendra Modi’s role in the horrific 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat has never been properly investigated, but now a timely new study is raising the right questions.
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