Dalit traders to make Delhi their base
Vikas Pathak, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, November 04, 2011
The national Capital is all set to have a formal, structured group of
Dalit entrepreneurs who will hit the market from Saturday to sell
their goods and integrate themselves with capitalism as a form of
empowerment.
"Dalit Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DICCI), which was based in
Pune till now, is launching its Delhi chapter on Saturday," Dalit
intellectual Chandrabhan Prasad told HT. Significantly, the launch
event is called Dalit Job Givers' Party.
"Dalits are not always seekers as they are shown to be. They are also
givers," said DICCI chairman Milind Kamble. "Entrepreneurship is an
even bigger form of empowerment than government job quotas."
The Dalit movement in India moved from an emphasis on "autonomy" from
upper castes — reflected in Ambedkar's demand for separate electorates
and call to embrace Buddhism - to a focus on empowerment through
access to government jobs via reservations. Mayawati's BSP was an
off-shoot of Kanshi Ram's Backward and Minority Communities Employees'
Federation, a body comprising Dalit government servants.
Badri Narayan, an expert on UP Dalit movement, says, "Now, empowerment
is being sought through market participation rather than government
jobs. But this is more a representation than a reality." However,
Kamble says Dalit entrepreneurship is a necessity, with the market
expanding faster.
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