Dalit Students being attacked by Thevar students at Dr.Ambedkar Law College Chennai
On 12th November 2008 at Dr. Ambedkar Law College Chennai, group of the students reportedly belong to the Thevar/Maravar caste attacked the Dalit students. The picked up Dalit students and beaten them with sticks and metal rods. This incident repeatedly aired on the all leading news channels. These students also not allowed Dalit students to appear for examination. This happened in the backdrop of the incidence happened in the last month when the group of the students belong to the “Mukkulathor Manavar Peravai (Mukkulathor student organization)” celebrated the Thevar Jeyanthi on Muthuramalinga Thevar’s birth anniversary. In all the posters and pamphlets printed for this function apart from casteist slogans the name of the Dr.Ambedkar law college has been truncated to Chennai Law College removing Dr.Ambedkar’s name.
Marvar caste which is popularly known as the Thevars/Devars is the land holding caste and one of the oppressive caste from Tamilnadu and notoriously known for their atrocities on the Dalits of Tamilnadu. This is not the matter of which caste is oppressing but every one should condemn this incidence.Education campuses in India are the further extension of the brutal,oppressive,feudal,anti-human Hindu social order.
This blog have come across the three fact finding reports done by some individuals and organizations based in Chennai.
-editor
