Caste Wars - India

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journeymanpictures | August 02, 2007

November 1994 A woman in a brightly coloured sari crawls through a field of g...

journeymanpictures | August 02, 2007

November 1994
A woman in a brightly coloured sari crawls through a field of goats and cows with her gun at the ready. She is from India's poorest caste - the 'untouchables' - who have long been at the bottom of the heap. They are fighting back. Young 'untouchable' women are learning to kill. They are gaining self-respect and, most importantly, protection in a hostile world. Higher castes are also arming their people after repeated attacks. Villagers speak of terror campaigns. As India's ruling party faces crucial state polls the country's battle lines are being drawn not only by religion but caste. Politicians can no longer afford to ignore the lower caste majority. This film examines the plight of the 'untouchables' and how they're helping themselves to an improved life.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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  • mother india is dalit....

    brahmins so called aryans raped her...

  • it'd be nice if the sound wasn't delayed in this vid....i know plenty of indians to know that they are very intelligent people. rather than worrying about a useless caste system, they should join heads and work together to develop their country and eliminate poverty

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  • politics is synonymous with opportunity

  • @lsjtifo ppl convert to islam christianity buddhisim as long as idiots like u are still alive mate & that is a proven fact. no 1 is interested in 'akhand bahart' as it never even existed but u try to make it existent.

    as for islamist terrorism mate more muslims have died than non muslims so its pretty clear who are the real terrorists.

  • Not all of us Hindus believe in that caste system crap. Not every Hindu sect is in favor of the system as well. My Hindu sect, Arya Samajism, is opposed to the caste system and any kind of oppression.

  • Hey guys anyone has known the movie like this as"Tisari Azzadi"

    pls load that on utube.

  • @sanjay000123 THE RACIAL FACTOR IS AN INVENTION OF IDIOT WESTERN SCHOLARS. MAN'S NATURE (GOOD, BAD) HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS SKIN COLOR OR OTHER PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES. CHRISITAN MISSIONARIES USE RACIALISM AND CASTEISM, AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES IN FORM OF WORSHIP TO KILL OTHER CULTURES. THIS IS DUE TO 2000 year old intolerance WHICH IS OUT OF TUNE WITH MODERN ERA.

  • correction to 'd' : The new religion has made Nagas great lovers of materialism as it did in the WEst --, outward progress through Xian education, nice DRSSES with pretensious manners, artificial behavioral patterns and arrogance. (Commentator is doing a socilogical research project)

  • (d) Due to full scale Xian conversion, Nagaland with bleeding cross all over the land demands separation from India, after losing its native culture of Hindu aboriginals and tribas. Nagaland landscape is now desecrated by churches filling where beautiful nature shone in splendour. The new religion has made Nagas great lovers of materialism as it did in the WEst --, outward progress through Xian education, nice resses,sex and arrogance.

  • >>>(b) Such examples of intolerant and fanatic Christian missionary evil is WORSE than Islamist terrorism are too many. It must be put down ruthlessly. Religious divisiveness from terrorr cells of Islamist Jehads in Kashmir and elsewhere in India today is threatening India, not casteism. Unless India adopts some degree of group dictatorship it cannot put down but will die due to separatist tndencies. So called Maoism is acually Xian guerrilla warfare in India.

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