_The Rights Collective | A Resource Hub for the South Asian Diaspora

Last updated: 7 June 2022

Introduction

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The Rights Collective

About Us

The Rights Collective is a feminist space for members of the South Asian community. We’re united by our commitment to collective liberation and we work to challenge structural inequalities of caste, class, race, gender and other oppressive systems to create radically inclusive spaces. We are grounded in an ethic of care, compassion and empathy. We operate in a flat structure and try our best to embody these values.

We envision a future that centres marginalised voices from within the South Asian community, in all its difference and hope to build a world that is founded on principles of equity, justice, collective leadership, and accountability.

We do this through the three branches of our work: (1) Community building & organising (2) Political education & knowledge building and (3) Transforming harm. To find out more check out our website: www.therightscollective.com.

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Contents

1. Caste, Class & Race 5

2. Gender & Sexuality 6

3. Gendered Violence & Abuse 7

4. Mental Health, Health, Disability, Debility and Madness 8

5. Intimate or Romantic Relationships 9

6. Nationalism, the State & Gender 10

7. Palestinian Liberation 11

8. Kinship, Family & Other Relationships 13

9. South Asian History 13

10. South Asian Organising in the U.K. 15

11. Anti-Blackness and Racism in the South Asian Community 16

12. Islamophobia

13. Protests and Resistance 18

1. Caste, Class & Race

Articles, Papers & Reports

Adivasis and The Indian State, First Post, 2020
Anecdotes To, Romancing (with/the) Caste, Jyotsna Siddharth, 2020
Anti-Caste Discrimination Alliance, 2020
A Woman’s Place, Anasuya Sreedhar, 2018
Blood Fry & Other Dalit Recipes from My Childhood, Vinay Kumar, 2020
Caste Broke Our Hearts And Love Cannot Put Them Back Together, Dhrubo Jyoti, 2018
Caste Discrimination and Harassment in Britain by Hilary Metcalf and Heather Rolfe, Equality and Diversity, 2010
Caste Does Not Explain Race, Charisse Burden-Stelly, 2020
Caste-hate speech: Addressing hate speech based on work and descent, International Dalit Solidarity Network, 2021
Caste in Britain by Meena Dhanda, David Mosse, et al, Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2014
Caste in Tamil cinema, a story in four acts, K Ezhilarasan, 2019
Caste in the United States, A Survey of Caste Among South Asian Americans, Equality Labs, 2020
Caste on your plate: Where is the Dalit food?, Manjiri Indurkar, 2018
Caste Privilege 101 by Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Sinthujan Varatharajah, 2015
Caste, race, politics, DIPANKAR GUPTA
Challenges for Dalits in South Asia's legal community - India, American Bar Association, 2021
Community Based Research, Equality Labs
Comparing Race to Caste Is an Interesting Idea, But There Are Crucial Differences Between Both, Arjun Appadurai, 2020
Dalit Panthers Manifesto, Dalit Panthers, 1973
Dalit Women Talk Differently-A Critique of Difference and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position by Sharmila Rege, 1998
Eugenics as Entertainment “Indian Matchmaking’s” Lighthearted View of Caste Oppression, Aditi Natasha Kini, 2020
Feeling Like an Outcast, Yashica Dutt, 2020
Freedom to Eat, The fight for beef as a democratic right, Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, 2019
From ‘Attakathi’ and ‘Kabali’ to ‘Pariyerum Perumal’: How this decade changed caste representation in Kollywood, Udhav Naig, 2019
Gandhism, The Doom of the Untouchables by Dr B. R Ambedkar, 2016
‘Geeli Pucchi’ Is a Lesson in Intersectional, Inclusive Filmmaking, Jyotsna Siddharth, 2021
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens by Uma Chakravarti, 2003
Health & Its Social Determinants: On Caste, Dr Sylvia Karpagam
How is caste discrimination different from racism?, Caste Watch UK, 2017
Indian Cinema and the Bahujan Spectatorship, Jyoti Nisha, 2020
Introduction to Caste and Life Narratives by S Shankar and Charu Guptac, 2017
Love conquers caste for this couple, but Indian marriage traditions continue in US, Kavita Pillay, 2019
Madam Chief Minister: Not Just About Misrepresentation Alone, It Is About Caste Class Privileges, Jyotsna Siddharth, 2021
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 1989
Prisoners of inequality sexual abuse of Dalit women, V. Meera, 1979 [PDF available upon request]
"Soft power is still power": Mehta, Funny Boy and the Tamil genocide, Sinthujan Varatharajah, 2020
Swipe Me Left, I’m Dalit, Christina Thomas Dhanaraj, 2018
The Revolt of the Upper Castes, Jean Drèze, 2020
To Jyotiba, Savitribai Phule’s Love Letters, translations with introduction from Sunil Sardar, 2017
Why Is South Asian Food Writing So One-Dimensional?, Maryam Jillani, 2020

Books

Annihilation of Caste, Dr B. R Ambedkar
Ambedkarism, compiled by Veer Bharat
Caste Matters, Suraj Yengde, 2019
Debrahmanising History: Dominance and Resistance in Indian Society, by Braj Ranjan Mani, 2008
Hatred in the belly, Politics behind the appropriation of Dr Ambedkar’s writings, Ambedkar Age Collective, 2016 [PDF available upon request]
“I Will Not Be Erased”: Our Stories As Growing Up as People of Colour, gal-dem magazine, 2019
The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate On Experience And Theory, Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai [PDF excerpt available upon request]
The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, Arundhati Roy, 2017
Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand, 1935 [PDF available upon request]
Untouchable: An Indian Life History, James M. Freeman, 1979 [PDF available upon request]

Videos & Mixed Media

Being British Asian: Who Do We Think We Are?, The British Asian Network, Mobeen Azhar and Nomia Iqbal, 2018
Caste and Colourism, International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN), 2020
Caste In The Diaspora, The Rights Collective, 2020
Caste on the Menu Card, SMCSchannel, 2015
India Untouched: Stories of a People Apart, Alukuchi Malukuchi, 2019
Om Dar Ba Dar part 1, part 2 - directed by Kamal Swaroop
Race and Caste Matters : International Connections, Bangalore International Centre, 2020
Rajyashri Goody
Spotlights: I Caste Bina Pyar Kahan Re! with Dr. Dhiren Borisa, Project Anti Caste Love, 2020
The Casteless Collective Is Breaking Caste Boundaries With Its Music, Vice, 2019
The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas | Short Film | Comedy, Neelam Social, 2020
The Doctor and the Saint, We Are Many Media, Arundhati Roy, 2014
The Urgency of Intersectionality, Kimberle Crenshaw, TedTalk Video, October 2016

Reading Lists

Anti-Caste Readings, The Rights Collective, 2021
Caste Abolitionist Reading List, Equality Labs
Caste & Mental Health Resources, Neeraj Kumar, 2020
Exploring Caste Resource Pack, The Rights Collective, 2021
South Asians for Black Lives, Resource Pack, Equality Labs

Podcasts

Caste in the USA, First Post, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, 2020

Syallabus

EXCLUSION, a symposium on caste, race and the dalit question, India Seminar, 2001
Racial Equity & Liberation Virtual Learning Series, Move to End Violence, 2020
School to Prison Pipeline, Connected Sociologies, Dr Karan Graham, 2021

2. Gender & Sexuality

Articles, Papers & Reports

Hinduism and Sexuality, Brill Lieden, 2011
Suck My Nation – Masculinity, Ethnicity and the Politics of (Homo) sex, Sasho A. Lambevski, 1999
The Invention of Heterosexuality, Jonathan Ned Katz, 1990
Queer Readings: Essays
Body as Space, Body as Site: Bodily Integrity and Women’s Empowerment in India, by Kanchan Mathur, Economic and Political Weekly, 2008
Sexuality, Caste, Governmentality: Contests over ‘gender’ in India, by Nivedita Menon, Feminist Review, 2009
Not This, Not That: The Hijras of India and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality, Vinay Lal, Social Text, 1999
Hinduism and Female Sexuality: Social Control and Education of Girls in India, by Karuna Chanana, Sociological Bulletin, 2001
Feminism Inverted: The real women and gendered imagery of Hindu Nationalism by Amrita Basu, Critical Asian Studies, 1993
South Asian Feminisms in Britain; traversing gender, race, class and religion by Sundari Anitha, 2018
Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency, Laleh Khalili, 2011
What We Talked About At ISA: ‘Afghan Masculinities’: The Construction of the Taliban as Sexually Deviant, Nivi Manchanda, 201

Books

Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality, by Sudhir Kakar, Penguin Books, 1990
Indian Sex Life: Sexulaity and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, by Durba Mitra, Princeton Univeristy Press, 2010
Sexuality and Public Space in India: Reading the Visible, by Carmel Christy, Routledge, 2017
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c 1850- 1900, by Jesscia Hinchy, Cambridge University Press, 2019

Videos

Dalit Queerness, Dhiren Borisa, 2019

Reading Lists

3. Gendered Violence & Abuse

Articles, Papers & Reports

Counting the cost: BME women and gender‐based violence in the UK: by Hannana Siddiqui, 2018
The child sexual exploitation of young South Asian women in Birmingham and Coventry: Exploring professional insight into young women’s hidden journeys, silence, and support by Dr. Caitlin O’Neill Gutierrez and Simran Chawla, The Children's Society, November 2017
Policing Sexual Abuse in South Asian Communities by Prof. Aisha K. Gill and Dr. Karen Harrison, 2017
Asian Women, Domestic Violence & Mental Health: A Toolkit For Health Professionals by EACH (Enabling Change, Rebuilding Lives), 2009
Tackling Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia: Why Working With Men and Boys Matters for Women, Overseas Development Institute, by Fiona Samuels, Nicola Jones and Taveeshi Gupta, March 2017
Why Women Kill: On Gendered Violence and Our Inability to Understand Female Rage, by Asale Angel-Ajani & Nimmi Gowrinathan, LitHUb, 2020
Enforcing Cultural Codes: Gender and Violence in Northern India by Prem Chowdhry, 1997
An analysis of forced marriage legislation in the UK by Professor Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, 2017
Violence against Minority Women: Tackling Domestic Violence, Forced Marriage and ‘Honour’ Based Violence by Hannana Siddiqui, 2014
Gendered Islamophobia, HeartToGrow, Vigilant Love LA, and Justice For Muslims Collective, 2020
Violence Against Dalit Women: How Caste Intersects With Gender-based Violence, Japleen Pasricha, 2015
State violence is domestic violence; In support of the Sarah Reed Justice Campaign, Sisters Uncut, 2016
Yarl’s Wood Demonstration: A Statement of Solidarity, Sisters Uncut, 2018
Gendered Islamophobia Report, Heart To Grow, 2021

Videos

Reflection on Gender Violence, Neoliberalism, and the Hindu Right by Tanika Sarkar and Kavita Krishnan, SOAS, University of London, 2015
Second Annual Lecture 2019: Carceral Politics of Sexual Violence, Dr. Prabha Kotiswaran, 2019
Islamic Law and Sexual Violence, Heart To Grow, 2020
What is Sexual Violence? 101, Heart To Grow, 2020

Reading Lists

Community Resources for Those Affected by Gender Based Violence, Malikah, 2020
The Aziz Ansari Syllabus, Justice for Muslims Collective and Heart To Grow

4. Mental Health, Health, Disability, Debility and Madness

Articles, Papers & Reports

The Mental Health Status of South Asian Women in Britain : A Review of the UK Literature by Aradhana S. Anand, Raymond Cochrane, 2005
Growing Up Young, Asian and Female In Britain: A Report on Self-Harm and Suicide by Anita Bhardwaj, 2001
Attempted Suicide and Self-Harm (South Asian Women) by Khatidja Chantler, Erica Burman, Janet Batsleer, Colsom Bashir, 2001
Racial Disparities in mental health: literature and evidence review by Tracey Bignall, Samir Jeraj, Emily Helsby and Jabeer Butt, Race Equality Foundation, 2019
Understanding the lived experiences of severe postnatal psychiatric illnesses in English speaking South Asian women, living in the UK by Harpreet Kaur Sihre, Paramjit Gill, Antje Lindenmeyer, Mary McGuiness, Giles Berrisford, Jelena Jankovic, Minaxi Patel, Jona Lewin, Qulsom Fazil, 2018
Effect of an Educational Pamphlet on Help-Seeking Attitudes for Depression Among British South Asian Women by Dinesh Bhugra, Ph.D., F.R.C. Psych., and Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks, M.D., M.R.C. Psych., 2004
What is Intergenerational Trauma, Mirel Zaman, The Refinery, 2020
Intergenerational Trauma in the South Asian Community, The Rights Collective, Dr. Rima Lamba, 2020
Mental Health and Smashing the Stigma, The Rights Collective, Inaya Hussain, 2020
How Therapy is Failing People of Colour, by Coco Khan, The Guardian, 2020
How History Still Weighs Heavy On South Asian Bodies Today, Faima Bakar, HuffPost, 2022

Books

The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME mental health in the UK, edited by Dr. Samara Linton and Rianna Walcot, 2018
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir. K Puar
Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2018

Videos

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice?" ,2018

Instagram Accounts

5. Intimate or Romantic Relationships

Articles, Papers & Reports

Hindu Women, Muslim Men: Love Jihad and Conversions by Charu Gupta, Economic and Political Weekly, 2009
Hindu Transnational Families: Transformation and Continuity in Diaspora Families by Ines Lourenco and Rita Cachado, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 2012
State violence is domestic violence; In support of the Sarah Reed Justice Campaign, Sisters Uncut, 2016

6. Nationalism, the State & Gender

Articles, Papers & Reports

India: Intimations of an Ending: The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right by Arundhati Roy, The Nation, 2018
UK: Corbyn, the Hindu-far right and Israel’s partisans, Amrit Wilson, The Milli Gazette, 2019
From Nagpur to Nairobi to Neasden – tracing global Hindutva, Amrit Wilson, Islamic Human Rights Commission, 2020
Hindu Fascism 101: What is Hindutva?, Alliance for Justice and Accountability, 2017
Silence Is Complicity: U.S. Hindus Must Denounce Modi and Islamophobia, Anuyha Bobba, Wear Your Voice, 2019
Kashmir: Caught Between Hindu Nationalism and Freedom, Manaal Farooqi, Wear Your Voice, 2019
Zionism and Hindutva, Two Sides Of The Same Coin, Rimsha Syed, Wear Your Voice, 2020
From ethnic outbidding to ethnic conflict: The institutional bases for Sri Lanka's separatist war, Neil Devotta, Nations & Nationalism, 2005
Revisiting Communalism and Fundamentalism in India, Surya Prakash Upadhyay & Rowena Robinson, Economic & Political Weekly, 2012
Religion and Nationalism, Christopher Marsh, 2008
The Rift Within An Imagined Community: Understanding Nationalism(s) in Bangladesh, Ishtiaq Hossain & Mahmud Hasan Khan, Asian Journal of Social Science, 2006
Conceptualising Nation and Nationality in South Asia, T. K. Oommen, 1999
Constructing a New Nationalism from Below: The Dalit Movement, Politics and Transnational Networking, Lisa A. Daily, 2009
Nationhood and communal violence in Pakistan, Hamza Alavi, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1991
Nationalism, Modernity, and the “Woman Question” in India, by Sanjay Seth, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2013
Women in South Asia: The Raj and After, by Tanika Sarkar, History Today, 1997
Complicit: The Human Cost of Facebooks Disregard for Muslim Life, Muslim Advocates and The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Oct 2020
Ants in My Blood, Akademii Mag, by Tabish Rafiq Mir
India: Intimations of an Ending, Arundhati Roy
A Shared Agenda Behind The Trans Rights Act & Citizenship Amendment Bill?, Ditilekha Sharma, 2019
Violence, Gender and Subjectivity,Veena Das, 2008
The New Strategies of Hinsu Supremacists in Britain, ByLine Times, Amrit Wilson, 2021
Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care, Justice for Muslims Collective, HEART Women & Girls, Vigilant Love, the Partnership to End Gendered Islamophobia, Project South, the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), 2021

Books

Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?, V.D. Savarkar, 1923
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India, Thomas Blom Hansen, 1999
Dalits and the Making of Modern India, Chinnaiah Jangam, 2018
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism, by Tanika Sarkar, 2001
Women in Modern India, by Geraldine Forbes, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History, ed. by Kunkum Sangari, 1989

Videos

India Divided: How Narendra Modi is Empowering Hindu Nationalists, Al- Jazeera, 2020

Syllabus

Study and Struggle, Connected Sociologies

7. Palestinian Liberation

Articles, Papers & Reports

Kashmir and Palestine: The story of two occupations, Goldie Osuri Al- Jazeera, 2016
Palestine and Kashmir - Settler Colonialism and Globalising the Intifada, The Rights Collective, 2021

Books

Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek, Hajar Press, 2021
The Stone House,,Yara Hawari, Hajar Press, 2021
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017, Rashid Khalidi, 2020
The Question of Palestine, Edward Said, Vintage Books, 1980
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis, Haymarket Books, 2016

News

Reading lists

On Zionism

Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims by Edward Said, 1979
The Ends of Zionism by Joseph Massad, 2003

Instagram accounts

Podcasts

This is Palestine, Institute for Middle East Understanding
The Mondoweiss Podcast
Rethinking Palestine, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
Palestine in America
The Palestine Podcast. The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Thinking Palestine Intersetionally

Videos

Edward Said on Palestine, 1986
Noam Chomsky on Palestine, 2011
Angela Davis & Noura Erakat on Palestinian Solidarity, 2021

Further Resources

8. Kinship, Family & Other Relationships

Articles, Papers & Reports

South Asian Diaspora, South Asian Women Elders and Everyday Lives of ‘Care in the Community’ in Britain: The Neoliberal Turn in Social Care and the Myth of the Family, by Navtej Purewal (SOAS) and Rubina Jasani (University of Manchester), 2017

Books

The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2004
South Asian Mothering: Negotiating Culture, Family and Selfhood, Edited by Jasjit K. Sangha and Tahira Gonsalves, 2013

9. South Asian History

Articles, Papers & Reports

Community, State and Gender: On Women’s Agency During Partition, Urvashi Butalia, Economic and Political Weekly, 1992
Status of Women in India: A Historical Perspective, Sophie M. Tharakan & Michael Tharakan, 1975
The History of Feminism & Doing Gender in India, Rekha Pande, 2018
Gandhi and the Indian Women’s Movement, Lynn Norvell, 1997
The History of Indian Women: Hinduism at Crossroads with Gender, Babita Tewari & Sanjay Tewari, 2017
Religion and Culture: Feminist Social Thought and Action in India, Dr. S. Maya, 2019
Indian Women: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, India Today, 2015
The saga of women’s status in ancient Indian civilisation, Bhaswati Pal, 2019
Did the British Empire resist women’s suffrage in India?, Soutik Biswas, 2018

Partition

Why Men Killed Women and Children of Their Families During Partition, by Urvashi Butalia, Scroll India, 2016
Seeing Partition Through a Different Prism to Liberate Ourselves From Its Trauma, by Taurin Saint, The Wire, 2017
Gendering Oral History of Partition: Interrogating Patriarchy, Anjali Bhardwaj Datta, Economic and Political Weekly, 2006
To Be Pure or Not To Be: Gandhi, Women and the Partition of India, Denali Mookerjea-Leonard, Feminist Review Journal, 2010
Bangladesh: Understanding The Past, Present, and Future, Syeda Mahbub, 2020
It’s time to smash down the wall of silence around British imperialism and partition, Ciaran Thapar, GQ magazine, 2021

Videos

Midnight’s Children: Legacy of Partition, Beyond Borders International Festival, 2017
Partition Voices, BBC, August, 2017
What happened to the women? My Family, Partition, and Me: India 1947, BBC One
The 1947 Partition Archives
Three Pounds in My Pocket, BBC
‘Forgotten Histories: Partition Remembered’ Part One Recording, The Rights Collective, 2020
Decolonising Partition: Is India free from its colonial past?, South Asians & Allies Together Harrow (SAATH), July 2020

Podcasts

Partitioned Listening 001: ‘You Trust Your Memories?’, Syma Tariq, May 2020
Women in Indian History, The Seen and the Unseen podcast with Amit Varma featuring Ira Mukhoty, 2019
History of Female Impersonation and Gendered Performances in South Asia, Masala History Podcast with Shilpa Menon, 2019
Brown History Podcast, 2020

Books

Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of an Empire, Durba Ghosh, 2006
Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India, Lata Mani, 1998
The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during British Colonial Rule, by Kumari Jayawardena, 1995
The Changing Role of Women in Bengal 1849-1905, by Meredith Borthwick, Princeton University Press, 1984
Partition Voices: Stories of Loss, Survival and Belonging, by Kavita Puri, Bloomsbury Books, 2019
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971, Yasmin Saikia, Oxford University press, 2011

Reading Lists

Partition reading list, by Dr. Eleanor Newbigin curated for The Rights Collective ‘Forgotten Histories: Partition Remembered’ Teach In, 2020
Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List, Black Women Radicals, 2020

10. South Asian Organising in the U.K.

Articles, Papers & Reports

The Brown in Black Power: Militant South Asian Organising in Post-War Britain, Jamhoor, 2019
‘Come What May, We’re Here to Stay’: Remembering the Asian Youth Movements’, Tribune Magazine, 2019
The bombshell trial of the Bradford 12: Racism, police abuse and a verdict that made history, Sam Brooke, 2021
The Grunwick Dispute, Striking Women
Rejecting political Blackness isn't an excuse to erase solidarity between South Asian and Black communities, Saffron East, Gal-de magazine, 2021
South Asian Women in Britain: Finding a Voice, 40 Years On, Media Diversified, Gouri Sharma, 2019
The British Asians Who Fought Racism in the Seventies, Al-Jazeera, Gouri Sharma, 2019
Women in the Asian Youth Movements, Libcom, Anandi Ramamurthy, 2019
Tandana Archives

Podcasts

Strikers in Saris, Witness History, BBC, 2020
Asian Youth Movements in Bradford, Working Class History, 2019

Videos

Strikers in Saris, 2019

11. Anti-Blackness and Racism in the South Asian Community

The Black Lives Matter protests and movement has illuminated the need in South Asian communities to self-reflect and dismantle the anti-blackness and other discriminatory practices that are pervasive in our culture. We thought some of what we share below may aid you in this process of reflection. If you are new to anti-racism, we recommend you start with this list of articles, books, podcasts and films.

Articles