NGO funding co-opted Dalit radicalism by defusing movements into the market sector

Evidence

Dalits have been fragmented and pitted against each other. Many have had to move either into mainstream parliamentary politics or—with the public sector being hollowed out, and job opportunities in the private sector being denied to them—into the world of NGOs, with grants from the European Union, the Ford Foundation and other funding agencies with a long, self-serving history of defusing radical movements and harnessing them to ‘market forces’. There is no doubt that this funding has given a few Dalits an opportunity to be educated in what are thought to be the world’s best universities. (This, after all, is what made Ambedkar the man he was.) However, even here, the Dalits’ share in the massive NGO money-pie is minuscule. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 359

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s existing material on how funding channels defuse radical movements — parallel to earlier notes on revolution co-optation.
• QUESTION: Could dig into the specific Ford Foundation and EU histories of defusing Dalit and other radical Indian movements.