Dalit Atrocities in Chhattisgarh

"In such interpretations Dube makes two major theoretical interventions relevant to ethnographic practice. First, he convincingly argues [for]  lower-castes’ own logic of renegotiating signifiers [as]  meaningful rejections of the caste order. Second, he therefore argues that by locating those practices in the flux of everyday life they can be better understood as categorical mediations. Satnamis and their others are constantly negotiating, reinterpreting, and mediating between state and local community, power and religion, myth and contingency, caste and sect, and the like. Of the four books Dube’s is the most theoretically innovative and ambitious. It holds special interest for anthropologists."

This is a fact-finding investigation report on the attack on Dalits settlement  in Gaudh village of Janjgir-Champa district in Chhattisgarh. The report, based on primary research, goes in deep to understand the caste complexity in the rural areas of Chhattisgarh. It details the facts of the particular incident as well as the process by which the stage was prepared in the process. Gaudh is a classical example to understand the Hindu system of godship and god phobia that draws people into the centre and then throws them off as a garbage as untouchables. These altogether builds the undercurrents that grooms and breeds in the entire country bereft of the differentiation of urban-rural divide. How the rich landlords and caste lords, power mongers and political groups, police and administration and the so-called responsible persons turn anti-Dalit is well narrated in this investigation. The most recent phenomena is the drama of compromise and how it is a tool in suppressing the community at the grassroots could be viewed in detail. The complete violation of the law of the land including constitutional norms and other Acts and laws are researched and documented at length. The report argues the entire dynamics of caste as a mechanism of oppression in modern times.