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Rural Dalit ghetto: 'Khairlanji'

Mon, 2009-04-20 16:08 | Vijay Prashad
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Pragoti presents a review of Anand Teltumbde's book by Vijay Prashad. Written originally for Himal, it is being posted here with the author's permission.

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Rural Dalit ghetto: 'Khairlanji' by Anand Teltumbde

Understanding the Khairlanji Verdict

Thu, 2008-10-30 14:50 | S Anand
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The Khairlanji Verdict, in which six persons were awarded the death penalty for the massacre of dalits, is anything but historic. In treating the massacre as a purely criminal act, it actually masks caste realities. S. Anand writes in The Hindu.

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http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/05/stories/2008100550090400.htm

Some thoughts on Khairlanji and the new turn in the Sohrabuddin murder

Sat, 2008-10-04 15:01 | V. Krishna Ananth
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The Khairlanji case is not a private concern of Bhotmange. It is, instead a mirror of the caste-based discrimination that continues to stalk the villages across the country and a reminder that Article 17 of the Constitution abolishing untouchability and caste based discrimination is a far cry even after almost six decades after India became a Republic.

V. Krishna Ananth, assesses the Khairlanji verdict and compares it to the judicial intervention of the Supreme Court in the Sohrabuddin-Kauserbi murder case in which Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauserbi were shot dead by a team of the Gujarat Police led by DIG D.G.Vanzara and thereafter described this act of cold-blooded murder as one of an encounter.