TITLE: Dravidian Model: Development with Dignity
SPEAKER: Dr. A Kalaiyarasan, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Brown University Research Affiliate in Harvard University.
USA: Dec 29, Wednesday, 5:30 PM PT | 8:30 PM ET
Social change is attained through a series of steps. The people are the actors of such change. The actors are mobilized based on the ideas that rule their lives. The so-called upper castes in India secured their domination in the material domain through their domination in the cultural and ideological domain sanctioned by religion. When the British introduced jobs through modern education the very dominant castes appropriated the domain of education and job through the very cultural and social advantage but boasted as natural talent and act of merit.
The oppressed had two diametrically opposed choices, propitiate or protest the culture of the Brahminical hegemony. Tamilnadu witnessed the clash between Hindu-Indian-Sanskrit and Dravidian-Tamil ideologies.
The Dravanian Model not only records our bold struggle against the system of Brahminical hegemony in the domain of culture, education, job, land, market, etc but also importantly it proclaims that we are products and living witnesses of such struggle.
The subnational development attained through inclusive populist mobilization based on Dravidian-Tamil identity now facing major challenges. The authors suggest the intervention in providing quality education across the social groups by saving education from predatory private players in education, rescuing healthcare from corporatization, providing better wages for the people who leave agriculture, taking measures to introduce reservation in the private sector, fighting corruption and regulate rent-seeking, and addressing uneven rural-urban development to defend the development.
The authors are sharply critical of the backward castes' resent towards the social mobility of Dalits and Dravian commonsense failed to make an institutional intervention on violence against the Dalits.
The Dravidian Model: Interpreting the Political Economy of Tamil Nadu by A. Kalaiyarasan and M Vijayabaskar entering into the source of in-depth analysis and constructive criticism of Dravidian politics along with Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present by M.S.S. Pandian and Towards A Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar by V. Geetha and S.V. Rajadurai.
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