Friends:
Gandhian Institute of Studies (Trust) has just written to me saying that they will publish my article on Bankim and Gandhi on Caste (2005) in their upcoming journal, "Society and Social Actions: Gandhian Perspective."
I wanted to share this news with you because I feel I owe you guys thanks for all the heated exchanges I had with you on the topic. My trying and failing to convince some of you about how the present day's horrendous state of casteism in India is largely a consequnce of colonization, and how the British colonizers' re-shuffling of a particular idea of socio-economic ordering that existed in India without so much misery, led me to reach out to Bankim's thoughts in the late 19th century on the subject.
[I remember I. K. Shukla expressing great satisfaction in the way i contrasted Bankim and Gandhi. I sorely miss his presence today.]
The points raised in that article are still relevant and can be used to extend our understanding of some of the present day situations still bubbling in the boiling cauldron of communalism and cassteism. It is certainly very brave of Gandhian Institute to accept an anti-Gandhi article for their journal.
Again, thanks to you all.
Farida Majid
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