Shades of Resistance: Race and Caste
Download the entire module here: Here’s a glimpse into Part I of the resource: Introduction Writing in 1873, anti-caste social reformer Jyoti Rao Phule in his Gulamgiri, talks about the ties of suffering that bind the Shudras with the African slaves in America. In 1965, novelist John O. Killens wrote in Black Man’s Burden, ‘Please do not give us the example of India and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi….The situations are not similar; they could not be more dissimilar.’ Yet, nearl