An Adventure into Dalit Philosophy

Dalit Communities all over India are in a resurgent mode despite the unrelenting
oppression and exploitation by the Brahminic oligarchies of this country. The
aspiration for an unbroken existence is unabated. The protest continues. Like all
other oppressed communities of the world the Dalit community has propelled one
person as their symbol of liberation. This person undoubtedly is Babasaheb
Ambedkar. However, he is not the only one that the Dalit community has seen.
There are myriads of Dalit Ancestors who have shown thousands of truths and
ways. Their multi-dimensional guidance has preserved the unbroken existence of
the Dalit people till today.

Because of the terrible oppression of the Dalit people by Brahminic forces that
stretches beyond human memory it has come to be indirectly accepted,
unfortunately though, that Dalit people have no history, no culture, no religion of
their own. This subtle acceptance of the paradigmatic dominance of Brahminism
has led to the modernization and renewal of its hegemonic order. Dalitology by
M C Raj asserts that Dalit people have a history, a culture and a religion of their
own. Cosmosity by Jyothi and Raj asserts that Dalit people have a spirituality of
their own, which is unique. While these two volumes are positive assertions of
the Dalit communities they also have become integral part of the dialectics with
Brahminism and Capitalism, if they are ready for any dialectics.

Now comes another volume from M C Raj to strongly assert and invite the
dominant forces of India and of the world to engage Dalitism at the philosophical
level. The assertion is that Dalit people do have a School of Philosophy that
needs to be recognized by all those who desire to establish a world in harmony
with the cosmic order and would like to establish lasting peace for future
generations of people. DALITHINK, which is the name of the latest book by M C
Raj is a scientific exploration and exposition of Dalit Philosophy that has
preserved the Dalit people over many millennia as a celebrating people.
DALITHINK has a strong argumentation that governance in the hands of the
Dalit people can bring prosperity for all people but not for some privileged groups
alone.

• DALITHINK is a strong assertion that there is a Dalit School of Philosophy

which existed much before what is today claimed as ‘Indian Philosophy’
came into existence.
• The latest in Indian Philosophy, namely, Advaitic Monism can be traced
back to the Cosmism of Dalit School of Philosophy. Shamanic Cosmism
still exists in different parts of the world.

• DALITHINK concludes that governance of the world must go into the

hands of indigenous and Dalit women the world over in order to make
distribution of material and spiritual values possible.

• Such a conclusion is proposed as a consequence of a scientific

exploration of many Projects of Dalitization.

• DALITHINK does not have much space for cringing on what other people
have done all along to us. It makes forays into the many areas of Dalit
strength and proposes that it is time that the Dalit people proactively offer
their strength to the world.

• Culture in general and Dalit Culture in particular are investigated

philosophically in a way no one has done before… The philosophical
foundations of Dalit inclusiveness and non-violence are laid bare.

• The inevitability of referring to the extreme violence that the hegemonic

order is perpetrating on the Cosmos and cosmic beings comes out clear in
DALITHINK. Is it Democracy or Demoncracy that the dominant order is in
pursuit of…?

• Dalit Epistemology is a new area of assertion and argumentation. The

assertion is that Dalit People have knowledge systems of their own. The
argumentation is the need for congruence between the cognitive and
emotive order in Epistemology.

• DALITHINK discovers “Ripple Impact” as the foundation of all knowledge.

This is bound to shake the cognitive order of the dominant world. Nous,
the mind is established as the foundation of the epistemology of the
dominant order. Nous is explicated.

• The core essence of communicative interaction among cosmic beings is

the cell system in organic bodies. The centrality of human existence is
communicative interaction. DALITHINK discounts any sort of
communicative interaction beyond the Cosmos. Indeed the Cosmos has
no beyond. It is limitless.

• DALITHINK interrogates philosophically many other dimensions of life.

Desire, Love, Sex, Homosexuality, Addiction, Anger, Criminalization,
 Transcendence, Trance, Pain and suffering, Death, Pleasure, Cosmic
Touch etc. are only some of the interrogative aspects of life.

No need to say that this book is unprecedented in the history of Dalit literature.

DALITHINK will be released soon as it is already in the press.

It is a Volume of about 300 pages from the Desk of M C Raj who also the author
of Dalitology, Cosmosity and many other books.

DALITHINK is priced at Rs.400 and $ 20 for other countries.

For your orders please write to:

Mrs. Jyothiraj
Director
REDS, Shanthinagar
Tumkur 572102

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