RACISM IN INDIA

FIRST ACCEPT THAT IT EXISTS THEN FIGHT AGAINST IT

 INTRODUCTION
• The term racism is broader one than racial prejudice and
it is generally used to include not only prejudice, but also
hostility, discrimination, segregation, and other negative
action expressed toward an ethnic group. (Oskalp &
Schultz, 2005)
• Racism can be defined as attitude, belief, behavior, or
institutional arrangement that favors one racial group
over anther group. (Farely, 1995)
EXAMPLE
 RACISM AROUND THE
WORLD
• Racism exists in most societies. In the united States, for
instance, there is racism among white people among
white people against Hispanics, African-Americans, and
Asians (Senker, 2009).
• In India, extreme right-wing Hindus believed Hindus are
superior to Muslims (who make up about one-fifth of the
population). They say that India should be for the Hindu
and majority and are racist toward Muslims (senker,
2009).
 ASPECTS
The ideology underlying racism can manifest in many aspects of social life. Such
aspects are described in this section, although the list is not exhaustive.
• Aversive racism
• Color blindness
• Cultural
• Economic
• Institutional
• Othering
• Racial discrimination
• Racial segregation
• Supremacism
• Symbolic/modern
• Subconscious biases
 CAUSES
• Socioeconomic status
• Mentality of superiority
• lack of diversity in the area
• Unfamiliarity
• Stereotypes
• Selfishness
• Environmental Factors
• Ignorance and peer pressure
• False perception
• The desire to exploit other people
 EFFECTS
• Racism leads to a decrease sense of self-esteem.
Positive relationship between racism and
psychological stress
• Positive relationship between racism and self-esteem
and life satisfaction.
• Racism also related to trauma-related symptoms
(Harrell & Hall, 2003), depression, (Comas-Diaz &
Greenes, 1994: Stevenson et al; 1997)
• It is also related to general psychological stress
(Constantine & Wing, 2006).
 FACTS
• In 2013, an article written by was posted on
the official Washington Post website. In
discussing the racism factor around the
world, the article dubbed India as being the
most racist country in the world.
• Three years later, a 2016 article on the topic
of most racist countries in the world was
released by Business Tech.
• The main question posed to each of the
participants of every country was asking if
said participants would be comfortable being
neighbors with people of a race that was not
the same as the participants’ race.
• India ranks as number one for the most
racist country of all countries that were
included in the study.
 MOST RACIST COUNTRIES

Approximately 43.6% of all Indian people who took the survey said that they would not be
comfortable with neighbors who were of different cultures, ethnicities, or races than themselves. A
heightened percentage of 64.3% of the participants from India also reported that they were either
discriminated against or witnessed discrimination unfold in their home country.
 THE UNTOUCHABLES IN
•
INDIA
The least challenged racism remains that of Indian Caste system. Indo-
Aryans started the Caste system in India after they conquered it, to
preserve their racial purity in India
• The Hindu religious name for the Caste system is Verna, which literally
means color system. Darker-skinned people, Dravidians, who were
defeated by Aryans, became outcaste or Untouchables of the Verna system.
• Caste members customarily marry only members of their own Caste. There
are about 3,000 Castes and more than 25,000 sub-Castes in India, some
with only several hundred members and others with millions.
• The tragedy is that with the rise of Hindu religious nationalism nowadays,
the Caste system is regaining its power, shaken a bit by modernization.
Most wealth and power is by and large in the hands of the top three percent
of Castes in India.
 THE UNTOUCHABLES IN
•
INDIA
Denial or restriction of access to public facilities, such as well, schools,
roads, post offices, and courts.
• Exclusion from any honorable, and most profitable, employment and
relegation to dirty or menial occupations.
• Residential segregation...by requiring them to remain outside the village.
• Requirements of deference in forms of address, language, sitting and
standing in presence of higher castes.
• Restrictions on movement. Untouchables might not be allowed on roads
and streets within prescribed distance of the houses or persons of higher
castes.
• Liability to unremunerated labor for the higher castes and to the
performance of menial services for them. (Marc Galanter, Competing
Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India, (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1984), P. 15.
 AGAINST NORTH-EAST
INDIANS
Many North-Eastern Indians face discrimination; are
refused living accommodations and are subjected to
racial slurs in reference to the appearance of their eyes.

Till February 2019, over 4500 distress calls were received

on 1093, a helpline for people from the North East India
based in Delhi, since its launch in 2014.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2019/feb/09/over-4500-distress-calls-from-
northeast-people-in-city-police-1936423.html
 ATTACKS ON NON-NATIVES IN
ASSAM AND OTHER NORTH
• EASTERN
In 2007, thousands STATES
of Hindi-speaking labourers fled from Assam after a
series of massacres and bomb attacks. In May 2007, nine of them were
killed and another 20 injured in violent attacks
• In March and April 2008, a banned Meitei outfit killed 16 non-locals in
Manipur.
• PHS alleged that anti-social groups in Assam were carrying out a
continuous hate campaign against the Hindi speakers in the region.
• In May 2009, nine Hindi speakers were killed in Assam and Manipur, after
the attackers set around 70 houses on fire.
• During 8–10 November 2010, 21 Hindi, Bengali, and Nepali speakers were
killed by a faction of the NDFB in Assam.
• In Meghalaya, the non-indigenous people (who are collectively
called Dkhars) are often targets of militant groups.
 ANTI-BIHARI SENTIMENT
• Anti-Bihari sentiment refers to discrimination against the people of
the Indian state of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
• North Indian students, including students from Bihar, preparing for
the railway entrance exam were attacked by Raj Thackeray's MNS
supporters in Mumbai on 20 October 2008. One student from Bihar
was killed during the attacks
• Four people were killed and another seriously injured in the violence
that broke out in a village near Kalyan following the arrest of MNS
chief Raj Thackeray
• In October 2018, there were incidents of attacks on Hindi-speaking
migrants in Gujarat after the alleged rape of a 14-month-old in a
village near Himmatnagar in north Gujarat.
 RECENT ACTIVITY IN TAMIL
NADU THAT SHOCKED INDIA
• Dalit funeral procession denied road access, forced to
lower down body from bridge in Tamil Nadu
 LIST OF ANTI-
DESCRIMINATION ACTS
• Article 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of Constitution of India
• Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850
• Hindu Succession Act, 1956- Abolished the "limited
owner" status of women who owned property,
amended in 2004 to give daughters equal inheritance
rights with sons.
• Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of
Atrocities) Act, 1989
STRATEGIES TO OVERCOME
• Role of educators
• Cooperative learning groups
• Eliminate biases
• Behave more as decent human beings
• Establish support for mental health
• Change yourself before attempting others
• Understand the depth of the problem
• Determine short term and long term goals
• Learn about your community
• Speak up if you see racism in action
UNITY ‘BAR’
•In a bid to promote diversity in India on
Independence Day (August
15), Cadbury created a four-in-
one chocolate ‘Unity’ bar.
•The limited edition treat is designed to
unite “people of different castes, creed,
languages, regions and religions”
represented through the mix of dark,
blended, milk and white chocolate.
•Cadbury wrote: “This Independence Day,
let's celebrate a country that stands united
in its diversity. Presenting the Cadbury
Unity Bar, India's first chocolate with dark,
blended, milk and white chocolate all under
CONCLUSION