THE ARCHAIC PRACTICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AGAINST DALITS OF INDIABYRAJNI (RAJJ) RAJSHEKHAR
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In India, the Dalits are shunned, degraded, and left out of the environmental conversation, even though they have been protecting it for generations.
You have to learn how to take care of the environment from us. your old practices are wrong
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Jotiba Phule, a prominent social activist in the mid to late 1800s, first coined the term DALIT in place of the term that was used before: Untouchables.B. R. Ambedkar was active in the early to mid 1900s, was himself a dalit. He was inspired by Phule, and he eventually became the first minster of law and a prominent figure in creating the Constitution of India
Social activist and polymath B. R. Ambedkar fought for the Dalits rights to drinking water.
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YOU WILL POLLUTE THIS HOLY PLACE. YOU CAN ENTER ONLY IF YOU GIVE UP YOUR IDENTITY.
NO DALITS
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On the one hand, Dalits face opposition from the upper-caste and are told to fulfil the role they were born to do : perform duties deemed unworthy and impure.
On the other hand, Dalit voices are drowned out by the sound of environmentalists and pseudo-anti-caste activists, who claim allyship but are just performative activists.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE AND LITERATURE IS DOMINATED BY THE VOICES OF THE UPPER-CASTE, PSEUDO-ANTI-CASTE ACTIVISTS, AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS.
THE SAME SENTIMENT IS ECHOED IN ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE.DALITS ARE SEEN AS UNEDUCATED ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, AND THEREFORE NEED TO STEERED IN THE RIGHT PATH.
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DALITS HAD THE CONSTANT REMINDER THAT EVEN IF THEY GIVE UP THEIR IDENTITY, THEY WOULD NEVER BE INCLUDED AS ACTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.
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Dalits are alienated and ignored to the point that they have become faceless and voiceless in environmental discourse. Their TEK is ignored or rebranded and packaged as something innovative.By not being allowed to participate in the environmental discourse, Dalits are now choosing to stay away from it, trying to avoid the hardship that comes from the Brahmanical and Environemntalist communities.
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LIKE THESE SPECKS OF DUST, THEY WERE EXPECTED TO NEVER SETTLE INTO LIFE AS A MEMBER OF SOCIETY
In conclusion, despite the changes made, the Dalits are still being excluded from the conversation, which will lead to a total alienation from environmental, political, and environmental politics discourses.
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Pandey, Shubham, and Priyanshi Nagarkoti. "An Anthropological Analysis of the Invisibility of Dalits of India in the Environmental Discourse: A Tale of Subjugation, Alienation and Resistance." Contemporary Voice of Dalit 13, no. 2 (April 19, 2021): 165-76.