What’s Your Ism? Ep 10. feat Khalid Anis Ansari on anti-caste mobilisation within Muslims

Caste and untouchability are widely perceived as a Hindu phenomenon - orthodoxically, they are categorised as “illegitimate” in the Muslim community. But the Dalit Muslims facing caste oppression strive for legitimacy. So, what is the complex history and dynamics of castes among Muslims? How is it perceived in the political economy amid scarcity mongering around reservations?
In this two-part episode on What's Your Ism, Sudipto Mondal speaks to Ambedkarite author Shalin Maria Lawrence and sociologist-professor Khalid Anis Ansari about the complexities of anti-caste politics among Christians and Muslims in South Asia.
In part two, Ansari sheds light on the history of Dalit Muslims, religious nationalism, the anti-caste movement in pre-partition India, the caste census, and anti-caste mobilisation within Muslims.
On the Muslim imagination of a sovereign nation, Ansari says, “I think there are also regional histories.” He adds, “The experience of a Kashmiri Gujjar Muslim is very different from the experience of a Shia Muslim or the ones in the Valley. Caste is written all across…There are all kinds of cleavages and contradictions.”
Watch.
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[@pranevprem]

These interviews/discussions deserve a lot more views!

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A very intellectual discussion on cast , class , violence, religion and so on

[@RazaulHaqAnsari]

Great Discussion 👏

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Get another hour with him on new ideation of caste politics in current politics of india

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The second book, is it available in English or Hindi?

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very informative, thanks for sharing this.

[@kmr5954]

Bro nice discussion, need of the hour is discuss about the socio- economic- cultural - political strategies and goals to anhilate caste in our society

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How to strengthen and start collaborative united effective anticaste organization in gross root levels all over southasia to oppose hindutuva forces

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