Casteism, vaguely understood in the West as a backward South Asian phenomenon, is beginning to be reckoned with in Canada thanks to decades of advocacy But caste-based discrimination should not be understood or dismissed as an internal South Asian matter
targeting Dalit communities were registered in the four-year period from 2018 to 2021.
This manifestation of casteism in the form of contemptuously flinging the name of a Dalit caste as a slur is a common experience in Canada., complainant Manoj Bhangu was able to prove the slur, Chamaar — the name of his Dalit caste, which is historically associated with leatherwork — was uttered by Inderjit and Avninder Dhillon during a brawl in 2018.
Cows, considered holy for Hindus, and beef — considered taboo — are an unholy symbol of caste injustice. If a cow died, it would be the job of a Dalit to carry the cow off and skin it for leather, the products of which the dominant castes had no problem using. Given that the Dalits lived in grinding poverty, the meat of the cow represented survival, and they ate it.
When Puli went to the state capital, Hyderabad, for his post-graduation, he had to switch from learning in his native Telugu language to English. “On the first day they started laughing at me,” he says. They jeered at his English-language skills and treated him like he was the village idiot. “I knew that there is this racial discrimination here, and definitely, we are ready to face it like other South Asians, you know?”
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