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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'I am Fighting Caste Through Capital. Creamy Layer Can Wait': How Dalits are Going About Their Business -Manas Mitul & Eram Agha

'I am Fighting Caste Through Capital. Creamy Layer Can Wait': How Dalits are Going About Their Business -Manas Mitul & Eram Agha

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published Published on Nov 24, 2018   modified Modified on Nov 24, 2018
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The Dalit entrepreneurs said that it was not the right time to define creamy layer. We are still viewed to be good plumbers, electricians, contractors. Not owners of a 500-crore company, said a Dalit businessman.

New Delhi:
When Nidhish Anand, a Dalit jeweller in Delhi, was about to enter a partnership with a Brahmin businessman, Anjani Kumar Pathak, a disclosure preceded the terms of agreement. “But I am a Dalit,” Anand had said before any progress was made in taking the brief meeting to further levels. The revelation was more an alert than a candid chat over personal details.

They first met amid the din and glitz of India International Jewellery Show in Mumbai in 2012.

He emphasised his identity as he did not want the ties to fray in future due to caste prejudices. “There was no point hiding my identity,” he said. They were planning to work together, and certainly Anand didn’t want his identity to become an issue in later stages of work.

“I was wary of the fact that what if Pathak was told by others that I am a Dalit and what if he thinks of his snapping ties thereafter,” the jeweller said.

The partnership that started in 2012 has resulted in working on establishing a manufacturing unit in Jaipur for the 24k jewellery. The two together frequent China for the same, and Pathak said, “His caste doesn’t matter to me, maybe because of the social values inculcated in me through my schooling in Sainik.”

Even though Dalit entrepreneurs have come a long way in asserting their presence in the field, what is yet to be seen is the fading away of prejudices attached to the identity of being a Dalit. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the creamy layer in SC/STs needs to be defined – but economics was never the determinant of their rights, historical and social wrongs were.

The Dalit entrepreneurs spoke to News 18.com and expressed that it was not the right time to define creamy layer. “We are still viewed to be good plumbers, electricians, contractors. Not owners of a 500-crore company,” said a Dalit entrepreneur in an interview.

What’s in a Surname?

Anand said that he didn’t directly face any discrimination, even if he was making a foray in the field like jewellery which gets tough for the other privileged sections. This, he believes is because of the way he presents himself.

“Just see the way I look. Who would think that someone wearing a tie, suit, dressed in a certain manner, conversant in English would be a Dalit? There are some surnames that reveal identities but mine - Anand - does not suggest that I am from a Dalit community,” the Delhi jeweller said.

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News18.com, 17 November, 2018, https://www.news18.com/news/india/i-am-fighting-caste-through-capital-creamy-layer-can-wait-how-dalits-are-going-about-their-business-1941867.html?fbclid=IwAR3GlAN2A2pB3


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