![]() ![]() In September, Manisha Valmiki, from a Dalit caste that has been traditionally assigned the unenviable task of manual scavenging, was gang-raped, mutilated and left to die by four upper-caste (Thakur) men in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. On, a White policeman knelt on the neck of George, an African American, for almost 10 minutes as he lay on the pavement of a Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA) street, killing him. ![]() George Floyd wasn’t the first African American to die at the hands of a White policeman, neither was Manisha Valmiki the first Dalit woman to be gang-raped and killed by upper-caste men. Almost 150 years after Jotirao Phule wrote his seminal treatise Gulamgiri and dedicated it to the “good people of the United States” fighting for the abolition of slavery, African American and Dalit intellectuals came together to condemn racial and caste violence against their communities. ![]()
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