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The Caste of Dissent

Lecture 2 of the «Anti-Caste Histories and Solidarities: Lectures Series» Watch the whole series:    • Anti-Caste Histories and Solidarities   Lecturer: Disha Wadekar Moderator: Nikita Sonavane The speaker would attempt to problematise the popular discourse around dissent that mainly focuses on the category of political prisoners (dissenting individuals) while systematically erasing the experiences of the historically criminalised communities (dissenting identities). The socio-cultural presence and assertions of marginalised castes, tribal and nomadic communities have been a constant threat to the Brahmanical State. Despite this, their resistance in the face of persistent state persecution and atrocities has not been treated as “valid dissent.” The criminalisation and targeting by laws and the modern criminal justice system is a unique tool resorted to by the Brahmanical State to disenfranchise “dissenting communities.” However, the near absence of caste-tribe analysis on dissent has invisibilised the problem of Dalit-Bahujan, Adivasi, and Vimukta incarceration. On the one hand, the hyper-visibility and over-surveillance of marginalised communities vis-a-vis the criminal justice system and their erasure in the popular discourse on dissent is ‘an absented presence always in erasure.’