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by V. T. Rajeshekar (Author), Y. N. Kly (Foreword)
After centuries of slavery, apartheid and worse, the silence is broken. The Black Untouchables of India, the 20th Century's largest, most oppressed minority, cry out for the ear of the world.
Dalit Riders, taking it to the streets, against Hindu color caste system.
Who are the Dalit? Why was Mahatma Gandhi their enemy? Who were their fair skinned Aryan conquerors, the creators of the caste system still in operation in India today? What is the relation between Hindu Brahminism, the modern Nazi doctrine of Aryan supremacy, and the colonial U.S. and South African doctrine of "white nationalism" and white superiority?
Why is the Black Untouchables' message so important to African Americans and all other Americans?
Caste Out and The Dalit Panthers are formed after the Black Panther Party, to fight racially-based Hindu color caste system.
African Americans and Black Untouchables share a history of slavery and apartheid (segregation). The Black Untouchables, originally the African founders of the lush Indus Valley civilization, were invaded and conquered by a people who called themselves Aryans from the North. The original black peoples of the Indus valley came to be defined in the terms of their conquerors as Untouchables in much the same way as African Americans were defined in American history books as slaves or Negros rather than captured Africans, obliterating their identfty. The Black Untouchables were kept in a situation of apartheid so stringent that even the sight of them, to the caste Hindu, was pollution. However, the religious culture of the Aryans gradually penetrated the masses of conquered peoples.
V. T. Rajeshekar (Rajshekar), his full name is Vontibettu Thimmappa Rajshekar, also known as V. T. Rajshekar Shetty, (born 1932) is an Indian journalist who is the founder and editor of Dalit Voice, which has been described in a release by Human Rights Watch as "India’s most widely circulated Dalit journal". Author of over 20 books translated into many languages, has worked for 20 years for leading English dailies before being dismissed because of his efforts to obtain the human rights of lndia’s vast persecuted Black Untouchable and Muslim masses.He was formerly a journalist on the Indian Express, where he worked for 25 years.
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