Global outrage over caste violence against Dalit girls remains strikingly absent

Evidence

If you have heard of Malala Yousafzai but not of Surekha Bhotmange, then do read Ambedkar. … The US President and the Secretary of State sent messages of support and solidarity. Madonna dedicated a song to her. Angelina Jolie wrote an article about her. Malala was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; she was on the cover of Time. Within days of the attempted assassination, Gordon Brown, former British Prime Minister and the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, launched an ‘I am Malala’ petition that called on the Government of Pakistan to deliver education to every girl child. The US drone strikes in Pakistan continue with their feminist mission to ‘take out’ misogynist, Islamist terrorists. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 26

Categorization

• XREF: Surekha Bhotmange was a Dalit woman publicly stripped and paraded then killed in Maharashtra; the global silence contrast with Malala’s coverage parallels the asymmetries noted between India’s caste erasure and internationally-covered terrorism cases. — connects to: Caste-based stigma persists violently despite formal legal abolition — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 235; Violence against Dalits is systematic, pervasive, and vastly underreported — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 36; Malala became a global cause while Dalit victims like Surekha Bhotmange were ignored — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 27
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Caste-based stigma persists violently despite formal legal abolition — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 235; Violence against Dalits is systematic, pervasive, and vastly underreported — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 36; Malala became a global cause while Dalit victims like Surekha Bhotmange were ignored — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 27