PERSPECTIVES ON EMANCIPATION EDITORIAL AND INTRODUCTION “I Can’t Breathe”: Perspectives on Emancipation from Caste Laurence Simon ARTICLES A Commentary on Ambedkar’s Posthumously Published Philosophy of Hinduism - Part II Rajesh Sampath Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents: A Historical Reflection on Two Cultures Ibrahim K. Sundiata Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest for Personhood of Shudras Snehashish Das Documenting a Caste: The Chakkiliyars in Colonial and Missionary Documents in India S. Gunasekaran Manual Scavenging in India: The Banality of an Everyday Crime Shiva Shankar and Kanthi Swaroop Hate Speech against Dalits on Social Media: Would a Penny Sparrow be Prosecuted in India for Online Hate Speech? Devanshu Sajlan Indian Media and Caste: of Politics, Portrayals and Beyond Pranjali Kureel ‘Ambedkar’s Constitution’: A Radical Phenomenon in Anti-Caste Discourse? Anurag Bhaskar, Bluestone Rising Scholar 2021 Award Caste-ing Space: Mapping the Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India Indulata Prasad, Bluestone Rising Scholar 2021 Award Caste, Reading-habits and the Incomplete Project of Indian Democracy Subro Saha, Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention 2021 Clearing of the Ground – Ambedkar’s Method of Reading Ankit Kawade, Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention 2021 Caste and Counselling Psychology in India: Dalit Perspectives in Theory and Practice Meena Sawariya, Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention 2021 FORUM Journey with Rural Identity and Linguicism Deepak Kumar CASTE A Global Journal on Social Exclusion D ra w in g o n p a pe r; 3 5x 36 c m ; S a v i Sa w a rk a r C E N T E R F O R G L O B A L D E V E L O P M E N T + S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y T H E H E L L E R S C H O O L A T B R A N D E I S U N I V E R S I T Y Volume 02 :: Issue 01 April 2021 ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste http://brandeis.edu/j-caste JOINT EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Laurence R. Simon Brandeis University, USA Sukhadeo Thorat (Emeritus) Jawaharlal Nehru University, India EDITOR Joseph K. Assan Brandeis University, USA REVIEWS EDITOR Jebaroja Singh St. John Fisher College, USA SENIOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Afia A. Adaboh Brandeis University, USA EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH & COMMUNICATIONS Jaspreet Mahal Brandeis University, USA PRODUCTION EDITOR Vinod Kumar Mishra Indian Institute for Dalit Studies, India UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Matthew Sheehy Brandeis University, USA OJS TECHNICAL MANAGER Brian Meuse Brandeis University Library, USA CASTE A G LO BAL J O U R NAL O N SOCIAL E XCLUS IO N PERSPECTIVES ON EMANCIPATION VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, USA; former Chief Economist of the World Bank; President, International Economics Association; former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India Krishna Bhattachan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, USA Ipsita Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of North Texas, USA Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, India Meena Dhanda, Professor in Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Jean Drèze, Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India Ashok Gurung, Associate Professor, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs , The New School, New York, USA John Harriss, Professorial Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Associate Professor and Director of Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Susan Holcombe, Professor Emerita of the Practice, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, USA Sushrut Jadhav, Clinical Associate Professor of Cross-cultural Psychiatry, University College London; Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Lead, Focus Homeless Services, Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Lead, C & I Cultural Consultation Service; Founding Editor, Anthropol- ogy & Medicine journal (Taylor and Francis, United Kingdom); Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, London, United Kingdom Chinnaiah Jangam, Assistant Professor of History, Carleton University, Canada S. Japhet, Vice Chancellor, Bengaluru Central University, Bengaluru, India Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Joel Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Williams College, USA David Mosse, Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom Samuel L. Myers, Jr., Roy Wilkens Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice and Director, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA Balmurli Natrajan, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, William Patterson University, USA Purna Nepali, Associate Professor, Kathmandu University, Nepal Katherine S. Newman, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Massachusetts system, Torrey Little Professor of Sociology, USA Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Services Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, USA Devan Pillay, Associate Professor and Head, Depart- ment of Sociology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, USA Christopher Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion, and Dean of Students for Continuing Education (Retired), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA Jehan Raheem, Former Founding Director, Evaluation Office, United Nations Development Programme and Former UNDP Resident Representative, Burma (Myanmar) Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard and Columbia Universities, USA Amilcar Shabazz, Professor, W.E.B. Du Bois Department for Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA A.B. Shamsul, Distinguished Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Ethnic Studies, The National University of Malaysia Kalinga Tudor Silva, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Research Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University, USA Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Social Anthropology Program Director, Harvard University, USA Abha Sur, Scientist in the Science, Technology and Society Program; Senior Lecturer, Program in Women and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goolam Vahed, Associate Professor, History, Society & Social Change Cluster, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology and South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, USA Annapurna Waughray, Reader in Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, USA Copyright © 2021 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion ISSN 2639-4928 brandeis.edu/j-caste TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITORIAL AND INTRODUCTION “I Can’t Breathe”: Perspectives on Emancipation from Caste Laurence Simon ....... v-viii ARTICLES A Commentary on Ambedkar’s Posthumously Published Philosophy of Hinduism - Part II Rajesh Sampath ....... 01-16 Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents: A Historical Reflection on Two Cultures Ibrahim K. Sundiata ....... 17-29 Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest for Personhood of Shudras Snehashish Das ....... 30-46 Documenting a Caste: The Chakkiliyars in Colonial and Missionary Documents in India S. Gunasekaran ....... 47-66 Manual Scavenging in India: The Banality of an Everyday Crime Shiva Shankar and Kanthi Swaroop ....... 67-76 Hate Speech against Dalits on Social Media: Would a Penny Sparrow be Prosecuted in India for Online Hate Speech? Devanshu Sajlan ....... 77-96 Indian Media and Caste: of Politics, Portrayals and Beyond Pranjali Kureel ....... 97-108 ‘Ambedkar’s Constitution’: A Radical Phenomenon in Anti-Caste Discourse? Anurag Bhaskar Bluestone Rising Scholar Award, 2021 ....... 109-131 Caste-ing Space: Mapping the Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India Indulata Prasad Bluestone Rising Scholar Award, 2021 ....... 132-152 Caste, Reading-habits and the Incomplete Project of Indian Democracy Subro Saha Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention, 2021 ....... 153-173 Clearing of the Ground – Ambedkar’s Method of Reading Ankit Kawade Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention, 2021 ....... 174-188 Caste and Counselling Psychology in India: Dalit Perspectives in Theory and Practice Meena Sawariya Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention, 2021 ....... 189-201 FORUM Journey with Rural Identity and Linguicism Deepak Kumar ....... 202-218