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⚫ '''''Dalit Voice''''' is an ] political magazine published in ] that claims to express the views of the ] movement. The current full title is '''''Dalit Voice: the voice of the persecuted nationalities denied human rights''''' and it appears fortnightly in both internet and print formats. It was founded in 1981 {{fact}} by ], a former journalist for the ], who is still its editor.
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⚫ '''''Dalit Voice''''' was a political magazine published in ], ]. The current full title is "''Dalit Voice: the voice of the persecuted nationalities denied human rights''" and it appears fortnightly in both internet and print formats. It was founded in 1981 by ],<ref>{{cite web|title=Dalit Voice Magazine|url=http://www.ekikrat.in/Dalit-Voice-Magazine|work=Ekikrat|accessdate=28 October 2016}}</ref> a former journalist for the '']'', who was also its editor. It was the largest circulated Dalit journal in India.<ref name="hrw"></ref>


The magazine and its website closed in 2011.


==Positions== ==Positions==
The magazine is described by the ] library as
The magazine has been described as characterized by a strong anti-Brahminist, anti-caste and anti-racist stance, advocacy of liberation from Brahminism, and a polemical tone. It proclaims itself as "the sole spokesman for the entire deprived, dehumanised lot of India...", Dalits, Backward Castes, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, women, whom it describes as "all victims of the Aryan Brahminical racism."<ref> </ref>.However, Rajshekhar, in his publications, declares the Indian ] as nations within the 'nation' of India. He has recommended the "strengthening of each caste", thus demanding the continuation of the caste system, rather than its eradication. Rajshekhar further demands that the ]s be deemed "superior to all other castes" and build a segregated Dalitist state in India<ref>Rajshekhar, V T . 2004. Caste a Nation within a Nation 'Recipe for a Bloodless Revolution. 'BfC'</ref>


<blockquote>"characterized by strong anti-Brahminist, anti-caste and anti-racist stance, advocacy of liberation from Brahminism, and polemical tone. Self-proclaimed as "the sole spokesman for the entire deprived, dehumanised lot of India...", – Dalits, Backward Castes, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, women – "all victims of the Aryan Brahminical racism."<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120714214027/http://library.columbia.edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/area/southasia/guides/resources/eresources/ejournals.html |date=2012-07-14 }}</ref></blockquote>
Dalit Voice claims to focus on the social and political equality of the underclasses of India, but have been accused of being ] by critics, as well as of promulgating ] in India, including the glorification of ] and ]<ref></ref>. The Dalit Voice claims that the majority of the population is "oppressed" by the minority, whom are regarded as Aryan and historically alien to the native inhabitents of the sub-continent. They also allege that discrimination in India as the original source of racism in the world, a claim that is not borne out by scholarly or historical sources. This extremist wing of the broader Dalit movement has formulated an "Indian variant" of Afrocentric history<ref>African Studies Review, Vol. 43, No. 1, Special Issue on the Diaspora (Apr., 2000), pp. 189-201</ref>, based on the ] in the USA, with whom it co-operates closely<ref name="Elst"/>.


The magazine published articles that attacked ], ], ], ] and ] ].<ref>K. Jamanadas, "Is it possible to destroy Hindutva without harming Hinduism?", ''Dalit Voice'', Vol. 25, No. 1 undated</ref><ref>Iqbal Ahmed Shariff, "Hitler not worst villain of 20th century as painted by zionists", ''Dalit Voice'' 16–30 June 2005 {{cite web|url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/june_a2005/articles.htm|title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights|accessdate=28 September 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045408/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/june_a2005/articles.htm|archivedate=28 September 2007}}</ref><ref>Iqbal Ahmed Shariff, "A Reply to Critics of D.V. Article on Hitler: Jews & the "Jews of India", ''Dalit Voice'', vol.25, No.1 undated</ref><ref>"D.V. and Foreign Affairs", ''Dalit Voice'', vol.25, No.1 undated</ref><ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104211942/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/jan2006/articles.htm |date=January 4, 2009 }}</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203225449/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep2005/articles.htm |date=2007-02-03 }}</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203203144/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/june2005/articles.htm |date=2007-02-03 }}</ref>
The publication attacks ], ], ] and American ].
Authors in this publication have also claimed that the religion of ] and the ] ideology are the same:


Its ] rhetoric frequently follows to further ] with claims of ] in India being related to ] and deriving their "fanaticism" and "arrogance" from "Jewish Zionist Racism", the magazine calls Brahmins "the Jews of India" and says that Jews and Brahmins are both races and Brahmins are blood brothers of Jews though on many occasions it contradicts itself, calling Brahmins as Aryans and saying that they elevated ] to godhood and built the sex-filled story of Mahabharat round him, to ] the rebellious ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/march_a2011/editorial.htm |title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights |accessdate=2011-05-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110420150856/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/march_a2011/editorial.htm |archivedate=2011-04-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb2011/index.htm |title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights |accessdate=2011-03-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725215156/http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb2011/index.htm |archivedate=2011-07-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Heuzé | first = Gérard | authorlink = Gérard Heuzé
<blockquote>
| title = Où va l'Inde moderne? (p 87)| publisher=L’Harmattan| year=1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Rajshekhar| first = V.T.| authorlink = V.T. Rajshekhar| title = Brahminism (p 28)| publisher = Dalit Sahitya Akademy}}</ref> ] was arrested under the Sedition Act under the Indian Penal Code for creating disaffection between communities. He was released only after a written apology.
"One cannot save Hinduism and destroy only Hindutva. The idea of difference, though it may be perceptible theoretically for the highly intellectual, is useless for the masses and needs to be abandoned. Let all Bahujans consider that Hindutva and Hinduism is one and the same thing and the Bahujans need to oppose and fight against both." (from ''Dalit Voice'', vol.25, No.1)
</blockquote>


''Dalit Voice'' also made various Brahmin-Zionist conspiracy claims and touted 'Zionist conspiracy theories'. The magazine claimed that ] and all communist leaders were Jews and communism was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy ] and establish Zionist ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/jan_a2011/articles.htm |title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights |accessdate=2011-03-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023203/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/jan_a2011/articles.htm |archivedate=2011-07-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/nov_a2010/reports.htm |title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights |accessdate=2011-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725215151/http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/nov_a2010/reports.htm |archivedate=2011-07-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb_a2011/articles.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-05-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814063028/http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb_a2011/articles.htm |archivedate=2011-08-14 }}</ref> The editor V.T. Rajsekhar has treated the hoax text '']'' as legitimate<ref>Dalit Voice, 1-12-1991##</ref> and has accused Brahmins and Zionists of a conspiracy to "join hands (with Hindus who he says are only upper castes) to crush Muslims, Blacks and India's Dalits."<ref>''Dalit Voice'', 16-1-1993##</ref>
==] and ] attacks==
Dalit voice has also made various ] accusations and touted "Jewish conspiracy theories"<ref></ref><ref></ref>. In various broadcasts, VT Rajasekhar has claimed that the famous hoax book ] as a legitimate text <ref>Dalit Voice, 1-12-1991##</ref> and has verbally attacked ] with allegations of a conspiracy to "join hands (with Hindus) to crush Muslims, Blacks and India's Dalits"<ref>Dalit Voice, 16-1-1993##</ref>


⚫ ''Dalit Voice'', in addition to publishing articles about "Zionist conspiracies" regarding ] and the ],<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045408/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/june_a2005/articles.htm |date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref><ref> See "Abuse of History" Hitler not worst villain of 20th century as painted by "Zionists"</ref> have also supported the ]ian government and ]'s ] of the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb2006/editorial.htm |title=Defeat in Iraq & fall of Bush: India warned to quickly adjust to big changes in West|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718022631/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb2006/editorial.htm| archivedate=July 18, 2011}}...President Ahmadinejad announcement to hold a conference of scholars to call the bluff of the "Holocaust lies" that Hitler's nazis killed 6 million Jews is a great development.</ref>
⚫ The writer Koenraad Elst has criticised the publication for having ] views. <ref> Ayodhya and After, Koenraad Elst (Chpt 14)</ref>, counter-claiming that claims of racism in Hinduism are a "crank ideology".


It also claimed that the ] in USA were ] controlling America and used to attack and destroy Muslim nations.<ref>" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045439/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/sep2007/reports.htm |date=2007-09-28 }}". ''Dalit Voice''. September 2007.</ref>
Their ] rhetoric, frequently follows to further ] with claims of ] in India being descended from Jews and deriving their "fanaticism" and "arrogance" from "Jewish Zionist Racism"<ref>{{cite book
| last = Heuzé
| first = Gérard
| authorlink = Gérard Heuzé
| title = Où va l’Inde moderne? (p 87)
| publisher = L’Harmattan
| date = 1993
}}
</ref> <ref> {{cite book
| last = Rajshekhar
| first = V.T.
| authorlink = V.T. Rajshekhar
| title = Brahminism (p 28)
| publisher = Dalit Sahitya Akademy
}}
</ref>.
⚫ Dalit Voice has also been criticized for "buying into anti-Jewish conspiracy theories" by far left-wing organizations such as the "Maoist International Movement". The MIM, while praising the organization of having "some good information on caste and other problems in India", they suggest that<ref name="mim">, Google Cache of the Maoist International Movement article</ref>:
<blockquote>
"We hope to see Dalit Voice drop its conspiracy theories about Jews that underestimate the oppressiveness of oppressor nation people in the United States and Western Europe and take up Marxism-Leninism-Maoism<ref name="mim"/>."
</blockquote>


He has also published articles in ''Dalit Voice'' that call for shifting the Jewish state of Israel to the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb_a2006/editorial.htm |title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights |accessdate=2011-05-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104213438/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/feb_a2006/editorial.htm |archivedate=2009-01-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/july2006/articles.htm |title=Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights |accessdate=2011-05-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104211308/http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/july2006/articles.htm |archivedate=2009-01-04 }}</ref>
In addition, scholars and Islamic intellectuals such as ] have criticized the publication, referring to it as "radical" and asserting that their rhetoric does not help alleviate the Dalit situation<ref name="Sikand">
{{cite book
| last = Sikand
| first = Yoginder
| authorlink = Yoginder Sikand
| title = Islam, Caste and Dalit-Muslim Relations in India
| publisher = Global Media Publications, New Delhi Pg. 98
| date = 2004}}


''Dalit Voice'' expressed praise for ] and praised ], calling it the art of dying and the supreme sacrifice and claims to be the first in the world to predict defeat of U.S in the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dalitvoice.org/Templates/july2009/editorial.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-05-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814063128/http://dalitvoice.org/Templates/july2009/editorial.htm |archivedate=2011-08-14 }}</ref>
</ref>:


==Reception==
<blockquote>
A scholar, ], has written of the links between a group of authors including V.T. Rajshekar, ] and ] and writers in the ] movement. He called this a "submerged network of Afro-]". He mentioned Rajshekar's editorship of ''Dalit Voice'', saying that its pages had "welcomed African American scholars for at least a decade". He criticized the views of this group of writers as "epidermal determinism" (seeking solidarity on the basis of skin colour alone rather than on the experience of oppression).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Vijay Prashad|date=April 2000|title=Afro-Dalits of the Earth, Unite!|journal=African|volume=43|issue=1|pages=189–201}}</ref>
"Far from alleviating the prevailing situation the militant rhetoric of the writers of Dalit Voice offers nothing substantial and instead create even more disunity. One writer calls the Ulema as the ‘progeny of iblis’ and appeals to the Muslims to stop reading their literature at once<ref name="Sikand"/>."
</blockquote>


⚫ The writer ] has criticised the publication for having ] views.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927152602/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ayodhya/ch14.htm|date=2006-09-27}} Ayodhya and After, Koenraad Elst (Chpt 14)</ref>
==Holocaust Denial==
⚫ Dalit Voice, in addition to publishing articles about "Zionist conspiracies" regarding ] and the ]<ref></ref><ref> See "Abuse of History" Hitler not worst villain of 20th century as painted by "Zionists"</ref>, have also supported the ] regime and ]'s ] of the ]<ref> Dalit Voice Article</ref>.


] writes that the ] exhibited by ''Dalit Voice'' is a fairly recent and unrepresentative phenomenon among India's ].<ref>] (1994). Histoire de l’antisémitisme 1945-93 (p. 395). Paris.</ref>
==Support for Dalit Voice==

Support for Dalit Voice has been expressed by at least one Christian circle. <ref>See e.g. the Flemish missionary monthly ''Wereldwijd'', March 1986 and February 1991.</ref>
⚫ ''Dalit Voice'' has also been criticized for "buying into anti-Jewish conspiracy theories" by the ] 'Maoist International Movement' though they praised the ''Dalit Voice'' for having "some good information on caste and other problems in India".<ref name="mim">{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Google Cache of the Maoist International Movement article</ref>


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Dalit Voice was a political magazine published in Bangalore, India. The current full title is "Dalit Voice: the voice of the persecuted nationalities denied human rights" and it appears fortnightly in both internet and print formats. It was founded in 1981 by V.T. Rajshekar, a former journalist for the Indian Express, who was also its editor. It was the largest circulated Dalit journal in India.

The magazine and its website closed in 2011.

Positions

The magazine is described by the Columbia University library as

"characterized by strong anti-Brahminist, anti-caste and anti-racist stance, advocacy of liberation from Brahminism, and polemical tone. Self-proclaimed as "the sole spokesman for the entire deprived, dehumanised lot of India...", – Dalits, Backward Castes, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, women – "all victims of the Aryan Brahminical racism."

The magazine published articles that attacked Hinduism, Zionism, Judaism, Communism and American neoconservatism.

Its anti-Brahmin rhetoric frequently follows to further antisemitism with claims of Brahmins in India being related to Jews and deriving their "fanaticism" and "arrogance" from "Jewish Zionist Racism", the magazine calls Brahmins "the Jews of India" and says that Jews and Brahmins are both races and Brahmins are blood brothers of Jews though on many occasions it contradicts itself, calling Brahmins as Aryans and saying that they elevated Krishna to godhood and built the sex-filled story of Mahabharat round him, to co-opt the rebellious Yadavas. V.T. Rajshekar was arrested under the Sedition Act under the Indian Penal Code for creating disaffection between communities. He was released only after a written apology.

Dalit Voice also made various Brahmin-Zionist conspiracy claims and touted 'Zionist conspiracy theories'. The magazine claimed that Lenin and all communist leaders were Jews and communism was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Christianity and establish Zionist Israel. The editor V.T. Rajsekhar has treated the hoax text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as legitimate and has accused Brahmins and Zionists of a conspiracy to "join hands (with Hindus who he says are only upper castes) to crush Muslims, Blacks and India's Dalits."

Dalit Voice, in addition to publishing articles about "Zionist conspiracies" regarding Hitler and the Third Reich, have also supported the Iranian government and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the holocaust.

It also claimed that the September 11, 2001 attacks in USA were covertly executed by Zionists controlling America and used to attack and destroy Muslim nations.

He has also published articles in Dalit Voice that call for shifting the Jewish state of Israel to the United States.

Dalit Voice expressed praise for Barack Obama and praised suicide bombing, calling it the art of dying and the supreme sacrifice and claims to be the first in the world to predict defeat of U.S in the War on Terror.

Reception

A scholar, Vijay Prashad, has written of the links between a group of authors including V.T. Rajshekar, Ivan van Sertima and Runoko Rashidi and writers in the Afrocentric movement. He called this a "submerged network of Afro-Dalit literature". He mentioned Rajshekar's editorship of Dalit Voice, saying that its pages had "welcomed African American scholars for at least a decade". He criticized the views of this group of writers as "epidermal determinism" (seeking solidarity on the basis of skin colour alone rather than on the experience of oppression).

The writer Koenraad Elst has criticised the publication for having anti-Hindu views.

Leon Poliakov writes that the antisemitism exhibited by Dalit Voice is a fairly recent and unrepresentative phenomenon among India's Dalits.

Dalit Voice has also been criticized for "buying into anti-Jewish conspiracy theories" by the far-left 'Maoist International Movement' though they praised the Dalit Voice for having "some good information on caste and other problems in India".

References

  1. "Dalit Voice Magazine". Ekikrat. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  2. Human Rights Watch Article
  3. Columbia University Library entry for Dalit Voice Archived 2012-07-14 at archive.today
  4. K. Jamanadas, "Is it possible to destroy Hindutva without harming Hinduism?", Dalit Voice, Vol. 25, No. 1 undated
  5. Iqbal Ahmed Shariff, "Hitler not worst villain of 20th century as painted by zionists", Dalit Voice 16–30 June 2005 "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2007.
  6. Iqbal Ahmed Shariff, "A Reply to Critics of D.V. Article on Hitler: Jews & the "Jews of India", Dalit Voice, vol.25, No.1 undated
  7. "D.V. and Foreign Affairs", Dalit Voice, vol.25, No.1 undated
  8. Dalit Voice – The Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights Archived January 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  9. Dalit Voice – The Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Brighter side of Hitler : DV to reveal facts suppressed by history Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  11. "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 2011-04-20. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
  12. "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
  13. Heuzé, Gérard (1993). Où va l'Inde moderne? (p 87). L’Harmattan.
  14. Rajshekhar, V.T. Brahminism (p 28). Dalit Sahitya Akademy.
  15. "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
  16. "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2011-05-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. Dalit Voice, 1-12-1991##
  19. Dalit Voice, 16-1-1993##
  20. dalitvoice.org Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  21. Google Cache of Dalitvoice article See "Abuse of History" Hitler not worst villain of 20th century as painted by "Zionists"
  22. "Defeat in Iraq & fall of Bush: India warned to quickly adjust to big changes in West". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011....President Ahmadinejad announcement to hold a conference of scholars to call the bluff of the "Holocaust lies" that Hitler's nazis killed 6 million Jews is a great development.
  23. "9/11 was a hoax Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine". Dalit Voice. September 2007.
  24. "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 2009-01-04. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
  25. "Dalit Voice - the Voice of the Persecuted Nationalities Denied Human Rights". Archived from the original on 2009-01-04. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
  26. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2011-05-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  27. Vijay Prashad (April 2000). "Afro-Dalits of the Earth, Unite!". African. 43 (1): 189–201.
  28. Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Ayodhya and After, Koenraad Elst (Chpt 14)
  29. Poliakov, Leon (1994). Histoire de l’antisémitisme 1945-93 (p. 395). Paris.
  30. Dalit Voice, Google Cache of the Maoist International Movement article

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