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‘Show me a better party & I’ll join it’: Dalits, Disillusionment, Disunity & the Durability of Dreams Hugo Gorringe University of Edinburgh; [email protected]

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‘Show me a better party & I’ll join it’: Dalits, Disillusionment, Disunity & the Durability of Dreams. Hugo Gorringe University of Edinburgh; [email protected]. Dalit Politics in TN. Dravidian Context Successive Challenges Disregard of Dalit Issues 1999 Third Front From Movement to Party. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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‘Show me a better party & I’ll join it’: Dalits, Disillusionment, Disunity &

the Durability of Dreams

Hugo Gorringe

University of Edinburgh; [email protected]

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Dalit Politics in TN

• Dravidian Context• Successive

Challenges• Disregard of Dalit

Issues• 1999 Third Front• From Movement to

Party

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Disillusionment: The Poverty of Panther Politics

– Supping with the Devil?

– Broad-basing Support

– Big Man Politics

– ‘Thirumangalam Formula’

– Downplaying Dalit Identity?

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Disunity: The myth of vote bank Politics?

‘Even when the PMK and DPI were in alliance why were they not able to win a single seat and Vijayakant could? … It means that the people

were unhappy about something. The Dalit people rejected the Dalit parties.’

• Can’t Win Alone

• The Primacy of Caste?– The Wrong Candidate?– The Wrong Alliance?

• Dalit Politics, but Caste Parties

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Dreams: Strength of Symbols

Why the residual attachment?

– Caste– Dreams: The Leader and the

Legacy– Failure of Others– Not *just* symbolic

The Strength of Symbolism

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Show me a better party …

– Cong & BJP

– Dravidian Parties

– CPI(M): TNUEF

– BSP

– Alternate Front?

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Discussion

• Vernacularisation of Institutionalisation

• Revisiting Caste Vote-Banks

• Re-assessing ‘symbolic politics’

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Conclusion‘It’s a blessing we lost [the 2011 elections] …

The party would have disintegrated had we won. 10 MLAs enriching themselves? The party would have

been ruined. Now at least we can rethink and restructure’.

• Professionalisation … in local politics

• Alternative Party not Alternative Politics

• More of the Same ≠ Dalit Liberation

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Recent Online Papers (2012)

• ‘Party Political Panthers: Hegemonic Tamil Politics and the Dalit Challenge’, SAMAJ (South Asia Multi-disciplinary Academic Journal): <samaj.revues.org/pdf/3224>

• ‘Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu’, Seminar 633, May (Special Issue: Caste Matters)

• ‘From Non-Brahmin to Non-Dalit: Dalit Politics in Dravida Land’, Centre Right India: 11 July 2012. <http://centreright.in/2012/07/from-non-brahmin-to-non-dalit-caste-politics-in-dravidian-land/>

http://centreright.in/2012/07/from-non-brahmin-to-non-dalit-caste-politics-in-dravidian-land/
http://centreright.in/2012/07/from-non-brahmin-to-non-dalit-caste-politics-in-dravidian-land/

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