Processing of Dalit Liberation Discourse!!!

For Reimaging Dalit Face

S. Lourdunathan, nathanlourdu1960@gmail.com

Hindu Approaches Karma Transmigration Approach: Ones Karma as Dalit is predetermined yet Do Good next Birth is better hence no social question. Bajanai (Bhakti) Appraoch: As a form resistance to Caste differences (role of Bhakti movements) ( Indian Mediavlism) Reformist Approach: Cleansing of Untouchability yet Retaining Casteism as Indian Social Order. E.g. Gandhian approach Arya samaj, Brahma samaj, Theosophical society etc Sanskritization Approach: Rejection of Casteism by either Upward mobilization Hinduization Approach: BJP and Beaware of BJP types Christian Approaches (Dalit Domestification & Mystification) Amen Approach or Pongal (padayal) Apporach: Let us Pray for the Poor and Dalits, involving Dalit coloured ceremonies and rituals inside the all-ready establised forms of Worship. Alleluiah (Evangelical) Approach : Two Tier Strategy - Cross-Model Church convinently accomodated the Focus-Fixation of the converts to christianity, Catehetical Approach: (Missionary Agenda) Trained groups of School Teaching Personnals to serve as life long Servitude Catehists for the local community life long without any payment attitude Bone-Dog Approach: (Vocation & Appointment Approach): Select group of Dalits not only bec they are Dalits but they are vulnerably qualified vocationalised to Priesthood or some careers like clerks and Clerks cum teachers (now Professors) kept under Domestication in gratitude. Ectra-territoral or Heavenly Approach: Blessed are those who suffer for they will inherit the Kingdom of God types Kalyana Mahal (Diocesian Multipurpose) Approach: o Inclusive of Dalit question, heavily backed by Project Funds Left over to Lazarsatisfaction - possibly some Dalit Priests appointed in commission\director role-play o Indianization, inculturation dialogue types. Kulir Kala Appraoch (Reservationism): Establishing the plight of Dalit Christians on par with that of the so called scheducled caste within the Hindu fold and embarking upon chairty and\or developmental approaches to the question Dalit Chrisitan Liberation. E.g. Christian Church Approach (Reservationism Plight but only represented by a handful of Priestly Dalits
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Extra - Scriptural Approach: Theologically and biblically signifiying the Dalits with referenct to Biblical Narratives like Exodus of Isralites and Gospel ethics; - Sort of Textual Contextual Hermenutics to respond to Dalit Christian Question, Discovering Jesus as Dalit Theology mostly ends up at Pulpit Scholarship. Secular Approaches

Class Approach: Centralizing the Problem of Economic exploitation (Class Issue) persuming Class struggle will eventually erase casteism. E.g. Orthodox Marxian approach Upper Middle Class Discourse: Augumenting for Caste-free society without specifically touching the Dalit Issue e.g. DK movements, EVR Between Tradition & Modernity Approach: Annihilation of Casteism, on the grounds of Modernity Discourse and affliating to Interpretative Buddhism. E.g. Ambedkar s Approach Democracy approach: Exclusive reaction and rejection to the social practice of dehumanising casteism based on the principles of modernity like democracy, Secularism, equality, Justice Project Approach of NOGs (often named People-based Approach) Development based Dalit is the ever inflow of Das Capital Dalit Party Approach: Rejection of Casteism by Retaining Dalit Identiy throu Political Representation and Participation Party Seat Bargain-begging between the Sun (DMK) & Moon (JJ) Dead Snake Beat Approach: Criticism of vedic narratives especially of that of Purusasukta and its allied moral scheme called Purusartha namely varnasharamadharma Human Rights Watch Approach: Perceiving and Placing, Lobbying Dalit problem as legal a issue to be filed in Courts, Contested with, Proved aganist/for and Protected in favour of, simulteneously placing the Dalit issue as a Human Rights Programme of Action accompanied by Reservationism as a remedial meaure in terms of Dalit Development on the touchsotne National and International Legalism. E.g. Human Rights Legal Approach Technocratic (Salesmen) Approach: Empowerment thru Engineering programmes to be subdued in the market-economy Restructuring Knowledge Approach: Dialectical involvement on the patterns of knowledge that structure Dalit giveness in terms of exclusion or inclusion by specific modes of Deconstruting and Reconstructing Dalit Discourse in terms of Dalit Arts & Aesthetics, Dalit social Social Engineering Dalit Dynamics, Dalit History, Dalit Feminism Dalit Sociology, Dalit Religiom & Spirituality, Dalit Politics, , Dalit literature etc.

Note: Serious no-serious en-roading into these tramples perhaps wud Reimage the Dalit Face ------------