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	Chandra Bhan Prasad - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Chandra Bhan Prasad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chandra Bhan Prasad, through the column, wages an untiring battle to present a point of view that he sees as being completely missed by the Chaturvarna people, who, he feels, continue to deny the Dalits their rightful place in Indian society.
		Chandra went to JNU, where he did his MA in International Politics, MPhil on 'China's Technology Acquisition in the Post-Mao Era', and enrolled for a Ph.D. project to study the 'Development of Science in Communist China'.
		Chandra was once again in the thick of things during the Mandal agitations, by organizing pro-Mandal agitations in JNU and Delhi.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Chandra-Bhan-Prasad.html (410 words)

	Chandra Bhan Prasad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chandra Bhan Prasad has become famous as the first Dalit to have a regular column in a Leading English Indian newspaper.
		Through his column, Chandra Bhan Prasad wages an untiring battle to present a point of view that he sees as being completely ignored by the Chaturvarna society, who, he feels, continue to deny the Dalits their rightful place in Indian society as a result.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad was born in September 1958 in a village in Azamgarh district of East Uttar Pradesh.
	encyclopedie-en.snyke.com /articles/chandra_bhan_prasad.html (327 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Chandra Bhan admires the United States of America for its diversity policies at every level.
		Further, delightfully sharp and polemical as Chandra Bhan is, one is left wondering who he thinks can be allies in the struggle of Dalits for dignity and a fair share in the nation’s wealth.
		For Chandra Bhan, the Brahmin is preferable, on the principle of “the enemy of my enemy” — hence his reading of the alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh, not as an alliance of Dalits with a communal party, but of a Dalit party with a Brahmin party.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040901/asp/opinion/story_3692590.asp (1099 words)

	539 Books
		To Kanchan Chandra, the answer to this question is not as self-evident as it may appear, and she chooses to answer it by employing a ‘thin’ rational choice explanation.
		Chandra shows how, in UP and Punjab, the BSP was more successful in persuading scheduled caste voters to vote for it, because – for different reasons specific to each of these states, but broadly pertaining to the ‘representational blockage’ in other parties – the ethnic head count of the BSP leadership was positive.
		This is a self-consciously denormativised account of democracy, and indeed Chandra describes her interpretation of Indian democracy as ‘cynical’ in its emphasis on the struggle over scarce resources controlled and provided by the state that have the power to impact the lives of both voters and political elites.
	www.india-seminar.com /2004/539/539%20books.htm (4323 words)

	:: NAVAYANA :: - Publishing for Social Change - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prasad’s reply to this last point was compared to the dalits in India, the fls in America were much better off.
		Turning to the author, Chandra Bhan Prasad, she pointed out that the Dalit women were the most vulnerable section and their sufferings should also be highlighted by the Dalit writers.
		Prasad said the country would never become a superpower or a developed nation, if the Dalits, one-fourth of its population, were not given their due in the media, academic institutions and in the private sector.
	www.navayana.org /content/news/news1.htm (815 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chandra Bhan Prasad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chandra Bhan Prasad has become famous as the first Dalit to have a regular column in a Leading English Indian newspaper.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad was born in September 1958 in a village in Azamgarh district of East Uttar Pradesh.
		In 1991 Chandra launched Dalit Shiksha Andolan, which spread to almost all districts of U.P. Since then he has involved himself in issues other than literacy and education, and tries to bring greater visibility to the Dalit cause.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chandra-Bhan-Prasad (430 words)

	:: NAVAYANA :: - Publishing for Social Change - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One wonders what Chandra Bhan would make of the ongoing fracas between Mayawati and members of her mentor, Kanshi Ram's family, ostensibly over control of trust funds and properties created by the now incapacitated leader.
		On the contrary, Chandra Bhan's framework, which found expression in the Bhopal Document, recognises the need for dalits, the state and civil society to go beyond the framework of reservation, and usher in a new agenda that would ensure dalit presence in public institutions without talking the language of reservation.
		Chandra Bhan is projected as so indiscriminate and desperate that he will go along with anyone who agrees to his agenda.
	navayana.org /content/reviews/reflections.htm (1987 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		Says Bhan, "The religious heads of virtually all Hindu organisations (read the RSS and VHP) are with me. I have the endorsement of VHP's Praveen Togadia and Ashok Singhal." Bhan argues that untouchability is part of the caste system and will remain as long as the system does.
		As for scrapping reservation for scheduled castes, Bhan argues that instances of bogus claims (higher caste members claiming to be Dalits) have been on the rise and reserved seats are not being filled on the plea that there aren't enough suitable candidates.
		He cautions that Bhan's proposal should be debated politically and that the UPA is committed to reservation in the CMP.
	www.dalits.org /Dalitsinnews26.10.05.htm (3783 words)

	The Dalit cause
		Chandra Bhan Prasad, columnist and a panelist at the Bhopal conference, pointed out that it was true that Ambedkar was a unifying force among the various Dalit organisations.
		Prasad explained that if Brahmins and other upper-caste people could achieve economic power across the country, it owed a lot to their knowledge of English.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad said that although there would not be enough Dalit shopkeepers, a State government task force could be constituted to identify and train potential shopkeepers.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl1903/19030920.htm (1490 words)

	The Dalit cause
		Chandra Bhan Prasad, columnist and a panelist at the Bhopal conference, pointed out that it was true that Ambedkar was a unifying force among the various Dalit organisations.
		Prasad explained that if Brahmins and other upper-caste people could achieve economic power across the country, it owed a lot to their knowledge of English.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad said that although there would not be enough Dalit shopkeepers, a State government task force could be constituted to identify and train potential shopkeepers.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1903/19030920.htm (1490 words)

	The Hindu : Metro Plus Delhi / Issues : Hate in the genes?"Non-Dalits are a Medical Case"
		Chandra Bhan Prasad, a leading Dalit intellectual of the country, has added a new term to the dictionary of medical science: Dalit phobia, which according to him, is more vicious and pervasive than apartheid.
		Drawing parallels with French phobiain Italians and Bolshevik phobia in the U.S. and Europe after the Soviet Revolution, Prasad stated that Dalit phobia was a medical problem and needed to be treated scientifically.
		Adding figures to words chief guest Suraj Bhan stated that 38000 cases of atrocities had been reported in 2004 against Dalits, and they include physical as well as mental trauma inflicted upon them.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2006/06/15/stories/2006061501690200.htm (410 words)

	On Dalit Phobia - Chandra Babu Prasad
		Chandra Bhan Prasad is one of the leading Dalit intellectuals in the country.
		Chandra Bhan enumerates the history behind this unique phenomenon and argues that this is not possible unless there was a colossal shifting of humankind.
		Chandra Bhan calls this Dalit Phobia and argues that this gets passed on genetically through generations.
	www.tamilnation.org /caste/060606chandraprasad.htm (861 words)

	`Civilised' people don't talk about caste
		He says sadly that Chandra Bhan made him think of caste when it was never an issue.
		It was unethical and unforgivable of Chandra Bhan.
		Lucky, lucky Chandra Bhan, who has had to know and remember his caste from the moment he was born, whose caste identity has been branded into his soul with every breath he has taken -- how insensitive of him to embarrass others less fortunate.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20001114/ied14035.html (592 words)

	An honest diary - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prasad is acerbic in bringing home certain simple but greatly unacknowledged truths about ourselves and our society.
		Prasad’s Dalit Diary - a weekly column featuring in the daily The Pioneer - is a rich illustration of the profitability of such an exercise.
		Even as there exist some indications that suggest that Prasad understands caste to be a historically changing phenomenon (see for instance his rather unconventional proposition of a Brahmin-Dalit alliance against the shudra castes), there are repeated instances wherein he seems to point otherwise.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov072004/br1.asp (478 words)

	'Indian languages carry the legacy of caste'
		New Delhi-based Chandra Bhan Prasad, 48, is a Dalit activist who writes a weekly column on Dalit issues in The Pioneer newspaper.
		Prasad picked up the gun in the early 1980s when he joined the Communist Party of India-Maoist Leninist with dreams of changing Indian society.
		Prasad, in a passionately argued debate with Managing Editor Sheela Bhatt, claims that for the empowerment of Dalits, the knowledge of English is must, especially in a society where those who can speak English are riding up the social ladder faster than others.
	www.rediff.com /news/2007/mar/05inter.htm (1410 words)

	The Catapult » Indian Languages and Caste Prejudice
		One such example is this interview of a Dalit activist and Ex-Naxalite member Mr Chandra Bhan Prasad.
		Perhaps Mr Prasad has not yet realised that if one extends his own theory, even the English language too will be found to carry the legacies of slavery, genocide, colonialism and racism within it.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad are giving a new spin to the Dalit cause by arguing for a Dalit embrace of English as a ticket to emancipation nirvana.
	catapult.nationalinterest.in /2007/03/06/indian-languages-and-caste-prejudice (1671 words)

	India Today Group Online > Web Exclusive > Locomotif> S Prasannarajan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prasad was there as the novelist's guest, as a performer of guilt.
		From Prasad's you're-the-accused harangue: still there are two societies, of "touchables" and "untouchables".
		Me, Chandra Bhan Prasad the Dalit, can never be a member of the gin drinkers' club.
	www.india-today.com /webexclusive/columns/prasana/20001105.html (482 words)

	Villagers fall victim to India's caste war \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Suresh Chandra Pandey's mutilated body was discovered more than a year ago, less than half a mile from his mud and stone house in the sleepy village of Nunnar, some 220 miles south-east of Delhi.
		It was a violent execution-style killing; the 50-year-old farm labourer was hung up, shot in the chest and finally had his arms removed from the elbow joints.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad, a Dalit activist who first floated the idea of an alliance with Brahmins, said such coalitions were a sign of political maturity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /india/story/0,12559,1505978,00.html (1109 words)

	Interview With Chandra Bhan Prasad
		Chandra Bhan Prasad is perhaps India's only dalit who gets to write a weekly column in a mainstream English newspaper, Pioneer.
		The interview was conducted in the last week of February 2001; 30-plus questions were emailed and Chandra Bhan Prasad said he took four days to reply.
		CHANDRA BHAN PRASAD: No. I am not a journalist in the classic sense of the term.
	www.sikhnet.com /sikhnet/discussion.nsf/3d8d6eacce83bad8872564280070c2b3/96A0BD6371814C3387256A550009E281!OpenDocument (1473 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		Prasad hopes to build a thesis with a great canvas of issues, flung about in Jackson Pollock-style.
		Prasad would like Dalit Phobia to be recognised as a medical condition and its sufferers (if that’s the word) subjected to therapy to cure it.
		The pity is that Prasad undermines what should have been a fascinating subject with this kind of reasoning (if that’s the word).
	tehelka.com /story_main18.asp?filename=hub082606A_khichdi.asp (731 words)

	Death Ends Fun: Memories of Jackson P
		This is precisely what Chandra Bhan Prasad -- "one of the leading Dalit intellectuals in the country", says the blurb -- wants to address in this book.
		Prasad would like Dalit Phobia to be recognized as a medical condition and its sufferers (if that's the word) subjected to therapy to cure it.
		C Prasad's book is better than the rag you dished out on Narmada.
	dcubed.blogspot.com /2006/09/memories-of-jackson-p.html (1323 words)

	A woman and a dalit at How the Other Half Lives
		If dalits have a higer propensity to consume rather than save at a given income level it doesn’t do much to convince one that they are opressed in relation to other groups at a similar income level.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad the “Dalit Intellectual” wrote the illuninating Rig Vedic Budget.
		And as Prasad so rightly put it - access to resources, access to education, etc. are indeed the way out for people to get out of the cycles of oppression.
	www.theotherindia.org /caste/a-woman-and-a-dalit.html (1783 words)

	Dalit Diary 1999-2003 By Harsh Sethi
		The downside of Chandra Bhan Prasad’s framework is that since the gross truth that he foregrounds is undeniable, it is difficult to discuss the implications of his policy recommendations without encountering the charge of caste bias.
		Readers of V.T. Rajshekhar’s Dalit Voice will be familiar with the polemic between Prasad and the editor of the magazine with CBP charged with being soft on brahmanvaad.
		Reflection on Apartheid in India by Chandra Bhan Prasad.
	www.countercurrents.org /dalit-sethi200704.htm (1207 words)

	The Catapult » Expect NO Overnight Miracles
		Added to that her party and government has the same problem of having alleged and convicted criminals in its rolls as any other previous or current governments and political parties across the country.
		According to Mr Chandra Bhan Prasad, a noted Dalit intellectual.
		I think this time Mr Chandra Bhan Prasad has got it right unlike the last time when he starred in this Blog for the wrong reasons.
	catapult.nationalinterest.in /2007/05/20/expect-no-overnight-miracles (881 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Industrialisation and modern education continue to be seen as liberators of the oppressed dalit communities and the social space of the city as the place of freedom.
		Chandra Bhan Prasad, a leading dalit intellectual, for instance, in a highly symptomatic series of articles, also assesses the coming of the British as “having made a difference” in this respect, with the following words:
		Prasad, Chandra Bhan (1999): ‘Social Fascism Is Real: Communal Fascism a Mischievous Construct’ in The Pioneer, September 5-11.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2000&leaf=11&filename=1992&filetype=html (13887 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Chandra Bhan Prasad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Through his column, Chandra Bhan Prasad wages an untiring battle to present a point of view that he sees as being completely ignored by the Chaturvarna society, who, he feels, continue to deny the Dalits their rightful place in Indian society as a result.
		At JNU Chandra read Ambedkar, became heavily influenced, and threw himself into the activities of SC/ST student associations.
		In 1991 Chandra launched Dalit Shiksha Andolan, which spread to almost all districts of U.P. Since then he has involved himself in issues other than literacy and education, hoping to bring greater visibility to the Dalit cause.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Chandra_Bhan_Prasad (353 words)

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