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From Everyday Humiliation to Lethal Violence: Tracing the Continuum of Caste oppression from Joothan to Kavin Selva Case.

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1. Caste oppression 2. Kavin Selva Ganesh case 3. Honor killing 4. Dalit Literature 5. Social hierarchy in India

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Caste oppression in India can take numerous different forms from anonymous and everyday opprobrium to undisguised and murderous acts of brutality. This essay examines this continuum through a discrepancy between Joothan: A Dalit’s life by Omprakash Valmiki and the contemporary case of Kavin Selva Ganesh juvenile pupil whose death was linked to estate grounded demarcation. By drawing a comparison between cultural accounts from the late 20th century and a contemporary circumstance the study highlights how estate distinction continues despite legal proscribing and structural protections. growing as a taboo in pastoral Uttar Pradesh Valmiki’s Joothan is an autobiographical account that discover the methodical and structuralized declination of being cut off from the community needed to clean the academy grounds and refused the right to sit in class. The subcaste of estate brutality is this micro aggression which prohibits access to respectability and versality indeed though they are not fatal. The story reinforces how an extreme established estate system which is generally excused as tradition sustains everyday declination. In discrepancy the Kavin selva Ganesh case illustrates the identical continuums durability deadly termination. The wide of bias in a supposedly ultramodern educational setting shows itself as botheration, insulation and the prohibition of equal treatment all of which leads to severe psychic pain and ultimately morality. The occasion indicates that estate influence has spread to new institutional surrounds generally taking on further secret delicate to trace forms and is no longer limited to pastoral or classical settings. This exploration shows that estate brutality is structural rather than periodic by surveying Joothan in conjunction with the Kavin selva case. diurnal humiliations are not inoffensive leavings from a defunct period they form the ground work that enables and energies more visible and violent forms of estate grounded demarcation. The study uses an associative frame to check the connections between lived experience and narrative evidences over time drawing on sociological and Dalit literature. in order to end estate oppression both the overt acts of violence and the covert accepted declination that enable them must be addressed. India can only develop a society where equivalency is not just an abecedarian pledge but a diurnal reality by handling the entire span of estate grounded demarcation.

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PREETHI K (February-2026). From Everyday Humiliation to Lethal Violence: Tracing the Continuum of Caste oppression from Joothan to Kavin Selva Case.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 11(2), 206-209. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRDI001044.pdf

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