Anti-caste writing and projects in Australia
- Dr Mitra Pariyar writes about caste in the Nepali diaspora in Australia in ‘Travelling castes: Nepalese immigrants in Australia’, published in the journal South Asian Diaspora, 2019. Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2018.1523091
- Dr Vikrant Kishore offered a webinar, in March 2022, on resisting caste-based discrimination in Australia. Read about the attack on this webinar: https://www.nriaffairs.com/webinar-on-caste-discrimination-in-australia-attacked/
- Dr Vikrant Kishore writes about caste in cinema in his article The Caste Blindness of Bollywood NRI Genre Films, in Senses of Cinema, May 2022
- Dr. Nisha Thapliyal and Sneha Chrispal discuss their submission to the National Anti-Racism Framework, in relation to Caste Discrimination in Australia, on 3CR. Listen here: https://www.3cr.org.au/thursday-breakfast/episode/racialised-surveillance-caste-discrimination-indigenous-centred-disaster
- Professor Hari Bapuji’s webinar on the implications of caste for business and society. See more here: https://aii.unimelb.edu.au/webinar-invisible-inequalities-in-business-and-society-why-should-we-care/
- Yashica Dutt speaks about her memoir Coming Out As Dalit, in conversation with Roanna Gonsalves, Oz Asia Festival, In Other Words, 7 November, 2021. More information here
- Dalit/Indigenous collaborations, edited by Mridula Nath Chakraborthy and Kent MacCarter in a Special Issue of Cordite Poetry Review features 25 Dalit and tribal Indian writers, 1 Indigenous Nepali writer, 51 translations by 40 translators., 24 languages, 2 editors, 7 works by Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam. Read here: http://cordite.org.au/content/poetry/dalit-indigenous/
- Literary Commons: Writing Australia-India in the Asian century with Dalit, Indigenous and multilingual tongues. A project designed and facilitated by Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty. See more here
- ALIF: Bringing together leading Australian, Indian and Indo-Australian writers and publishers. A project designed and facilitated by Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty. See more here
- Malcolm Knox writes about caste in Australia: https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/feature/caste-acts
- Naomi Selvaratnam on caste discrimination in Australia: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australians-subject-to-caste-discrimination-migrants-say
- Karishma Luthria on caste in Australia: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/australia/13085900
- Amrit Dhillon on the practice of untouchability: https://www.smh.com.au/world/untouchability-is-a-crime-but-still-common-practice-in-some-parts-of-india-20180119-h0l9fa.html
- Roanna Gonsalves interviews S.Anand, anti-caste publisher: http://cordite.org.au/interviews/gonsalves-anand/
Key anti-caste documents, networks and publishers
- Guidance Tool on Descent-Based Discrimination: Key Challenges and Strategic Approaches to Combat Caste-Based and Analogous Forms of Discrimination, United Nations Network on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
- International Dalit Solidarity Network
- Velivada, an anti-caste website
- Mavelinadu, an anti-caste publication and community space by & for marginalised castes and Indigenous people on Instagram
- Panther’s Paw Publishing: Read more here
- Navayana Publishing
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