Caste and Zomato: A short essay

This video was unplanned and made on short notice while I was writing my script for the Jaati and Varna/ Caste system video, and I came across the information that the food delivery company Zomato has launched a new 'Pure Veg' fleet.

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0:00 hello
0:27 Caste purity and food preferences
01:59 Epistemic violence and Caste
03:20 Purity and Pollution is not unique to India but the Hierarchical structure it operates in must be studied individually
04:35 Zomato drivers being discriminated against for their identity
05:13 Historical example of caste oppression in pre-land reform Kerala
06:43 India surpasses the United States in global Beef Exports
07:03 Hypocrisy of cow vigilantes lynching minorities
07:59 Thank you

References:
1) The Economics of Caste Norms: Purity, Status, and Women's Work in India by Patrick Agte and Arielle Bernhardt, Jan 23 2023 - https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/abernhardt/files/bernhardta_jmp.pdf

2) National commission for sceduled castes sends notice to Zomato, Delhi Police and YouTube over casteist ad - https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/national-commission-for-scheduled-castes-notice-to-zomato-delhi-police-youtube-over-casteist-advertisement/article66964808.ece

3) Zomato pure veg mode leaves netizens split - livemint - https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/zomato-pure-veg-mode-leaves-netizens-split-casteist-criminal-move-vs-amazing-initiative-11710855996122.html

4) SARI survey of 8065 people finds that untouchability still prevalent in north India - https://scroll.in/latest/864755/untouchability-still-high-in-uttar-pradesh-rajasthan-and-delhi-finds-survey

5) Gayatri Spivak's 'Can The Sub Altern Speak?' - https://abahlali.org/files/Can_the_subaltern_speak.pdf

6) The Continuing Practice of Untouchability in India: Patterns and Mitigating Influences - https://paa2015.populationassociation.org/papers/153481

7) Asai Bibi - Untouchability in Pakistan - https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2018/11/untouchable-caste-identity-haunts-pakistani-christians-like-asia-bibi/

8) Untouchability in Nigeria by Leo Igwe - Dalit Netwerk Nederland - https://www.dalits.nl/0612b.html#:~:text=Scornfully%20referred%20to%20as%20sacrificial,their%20alleged%20repulsive%20body%20odour.

9) The Buraku people of Japan by Babu Gogineni - https://www.dalits.nl/0612a.html

10) Racial history of American Swimming Pools - https://www.npr.org/2008/05/06/90213675/racial-history-of-american-swimming-pools

11) *additional reading* White fear creates white spaces and excacerbates health disparities - https://publichealth.wustl.edu/white-fear-creates-white-spaces-and-exacerbates-health-disparities/

12) *additional reading* Why lifeguards kept a black kid out of a pool in 1951- https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/why-lifeguards-really-kept-a-black-kid-out-of-a-pool-in-1951-20201008-p5638o.html

13) Remembering Jim Crow - https://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/public.html#21

14) Casteist Verses from the Manusmriti - https://velivada.com/2017/05/31/casteist-quotes-verses-manusmriti-law-book-hindus/

15) Intersectional Invisibility: Indian Women Manual Scavengers by Aastha Malipatil - https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/intersectional-invisibility-indian-women-manual-scavengers/#:~:text=Reports%20by%20various%20entities%20and,a%20shocking%2095%25%20are%20women.

16) Dalit Man Beaten to Death for Asking for His Wages - https://thewire.in/caste/up-dalit-man-beaten-to-death-for-asking-for-his-wages-kin-yet-to-receive-body-after-15-days

17) Lucknow: Dalit Zomato Delivery Agent Spat At, Beaten Up by Customer Who Refused to Collect Order - https://thewire.in/caste/lucknow-dalit-zomato-delivery-agent-spat-at-beaten-up-by-customer-who-refused-to-collect-order

18) Ayyankali, and the Story of Kerala’s First Worker’s Strike - https://livewire.thewire.in/livewire/ayyankali-and-the-story-of-keralas-first-workers-strike/

19) Nayar warriors could kill Pulaya workers - Page 301 of Weberian Sociaological Theory by Randall Collins - https://books.google.ca/books?id=v39x_fKR-ykC&pg=PA301&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

20) Brahmin Settlements and The Land Tenure System of Kerala - https://thematicsjournals.org/index.php/hrj/article/view/16437/11508

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#zomato #caste #india #bjp #hindutva #rss #indianpolitics #politics #leftwing_politics #nationalism #capitalism #fascism #breadtube #indian_leftist #kerala #pure_veg #non_veg #food_delivery_apps #video_essays #leftwing #letist #fascist #privilege #upper_caste #privileged_caste #marginalized

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