www.scstcell.iitb.ac.in

Resources

Official resources

What constitutes as harassment & Grievance redressal (2024/25) 

Orientation about the cell (Aug 2024): Slides

Orientation about the cell (Aug 2023): Slides

The Cell's youtube channel (contains useful videos)

Cell's objectives broadly:

- Overall welfare of SCST students (for example, academics, scholarships), working together with other institute/department entities of IITB: increasing know-how/tips/guidelines about the processes/rules. This also includes analyzing performance batch-wise/year-wise of SCST students in comparison with rest of the students, both UG and PG.
- Sensitization of the campus community: all students, all staff-members, all faculty-members: efforts towards further improving inclusivity.
- Grievance and complaint handling: receiving and interacting with SCST students about matters related to caste-based discrimination.

A detailed mandate will be put up here soon.

Annual Reports for last few years:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f8IKOwYwHKzTsHl50Pce_TvbTW01u9M92EDtnZxywUA/

Overall cell's existence as mandated by AICTE

AICTE has compiled what any institute's SC/ST cell's objectives/initiatives should cover. This is available at: https://www.aicte-india.org/bureaus/administration/scst-cell

Additional resources

Understanding why reservation is important and analyzing the myth of Merit

Casteist and offensive slurs that should ashame anybody using them!

It is unfortunate that much of casual conversation has slurs coming from casteist origins. It is time to recognize this, educate ourselves and stop using such slurs. In fact, any slurs arising from gender/caste/racial or any other bias should ashame those using them. Please stop using them and also politely prohibit others from using such slurs.

We acknowledge and thank Divya Kandukuri, BuzzFeed India for the Youtube Video, the basis for this list

Language List of Slurs
General Slurs Junglee, mahar, chuhra, adivasi, yanaadi, maharki, kathodi, lambadi,,chambar chokhashi, yerukalollu, khoode wala, ghaati, kanjar, dhedgujari, dhobi,chandal,pariah, mahar, kanjar, bhand, Malech/Mlechcha, napit, chink
Hindi Slurs Daliddar, dalidr, chamaar, chamayin (feminine), paasi, bhangi, kanjar, malech, dhobi, harijan, kameena, kameeni (feminine), chandaal, bhand, junglee, kasaayi, naayi, Chuhda
Telugu Slurs chandaalam, nakkalolla panulu, mahla madiga, , madiga, maala, budabukkala, maaloda, madigoda, maala lanjakodaka, dappuna kodaka, sancharina kodaka, mala mokamdana
Tamil Slurs para, chandala, sakkiliya, nadhari, korava, pandaram, domar, cheri
Kannada Slurs Vaḍḍa nan maganē,hajāma, dombarāṭa āta adabeda, koḷegēri sūḷemakḷu, tōṭige huṭṭidavane, hole mādiga, dhana thinuavanu
Dogri & Bhaderwahi Slurs Churha, chamar, doom, chanal, watal, bhandd, bhangi
Gujarati slurs para, chandala, sakkiliya, nadhari, korava, pandaram, domar, cheri
Racial slurs derogatory to NE people Chinki, Chinese, Momo, Chowmein, Corona (Corona-carriers), Chutiya, Junglee, "Are you Indian", Alien, Dkhar, Miya, Mayang
 

Reading List on Caste:

Must Read:

  1. Annihilation of caste - Dr. Ambedkar
  2. Waiting for a Visa - Dr. Ambedkar
  3. Revolution and Counter Revolution in Ancient India - Dr. Ambedkar
  4. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches (BAWS)
  5. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir - Yashica Dutt
  6. Caste matters - Suraj Yengde
  7. Why I hid my caste - Baburao Bagul
  8. Joothan - Om Prakash Valmiki
  9. The weave of my life - A Dalit woman's memoirs by Urmila Pawar
  10. Slavery - Jotirao Phule
  11. Seeking begumpura - Gail Omvedt
  12. The Caste of Merit - Ajanta Subramanian

Reading List on Tribe:

       1. State, Society, and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India - Xaxa, Virginius
       2. Tribes and Indian National Identity: Location of Exclusion and Marginality - Xaxa, Virginius. , Brown Journal of World Affairs. XXIII (I): 223-237. 2016.
       3. Handbook of Tribal Politics in India - Jagannath, Ambagudia and Xaxa, Virginius 

Additional Read:

  1. Akkarmashi by Tulsidas
  2. Biographies of Phule ravidas and Babu jagjevan kushwaha
  3. Sarvajanik Satya Dharma by Phule
  4. Why were women enslaved Thanthai Periyar
  5. "The Language of the Gods in the World of Men"
  6. "Towards a Political Philology: D. D. Kosambi and Sanskrit"
  7. Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History
  8. "The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History"
  9. "Myth and Reality: Studies in the Formation of Indian Culture"
  10. "An Introduction to the Study of Indian History"
  11. Buffalo Nationalism: A Critique of Spiritual Fascism- Kancha Iliah Shepherd
  12. Dispersed Radiance by Prof Abha Sur
  13. Riddles of Hinduism Ambedkar
  14. Buddha and his Dhamma Ambedkar
  15. Who were the Shudras Ambedkar
  16. What Gandhi and Congress have done to untouchables Ambedkar
  17. The untouchables, who were they and why they became untouchables Ambedkar
  18. Buddha or Karl Marx Ambedkar
  19. Distinction Pierre Bourdieu
  20. Forms of capital Pierre Bourdieu
  21. Conquest of Bread Peter Kropotkin
  22. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  23. Feminism is for everybody Bell Hooks
  24. We should all be feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  25. Sapiens Yuval Noah Hari
  26. Mutual Aid Peter Kropotkin
  27. Ayyankali: A Dalit Leader of Organic Protest Meena Kandasamy
  28. Listen to my case Chandru
  29. We also made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement by Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar
  30. Poisioned bread -Arjun Dangle
  31. Strike a blow to change the world -Eknath Awad