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Body Studies Journal, 2021
This paper attempts to make sense of the spine-chilling crime committed in September 2020 against... more This paper attempts to make sense of the spine-chilling
crime committed in September 2020 against a young Dalit
woman from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh who was brutally
gang raped, mutilated and left to die in the fields. This was
followed by the casteist and heartless behavior of the
Uttar Pradesh police who burned the woman’s body in
the dead of the night while locking away her family in
their house. The paper then questions if the treatment
meted out to the girl and her family would have been the
same if they belonged to the upper castes of the Indian
society. The paper is divided in four sections. The first part discusses the case and contextualizes the caste status
of the victim in the village of Hathras. The second part
scrutinizes the larger caste-class-gender nexus in India,
particularly in relation to women’s bodies. The third part
of the paper situates the rape and assault in relation to
the other debates around sexual violence in post-colonial
India, particularly the extraordinary nature of the 2012
Delhi gang-rape case. In the fourth and final part, the
paper describes the aftermath of the burning of the Hathras
victim’s body and the state’s response to the crime.
Body Studies Journal, 2021
This paper attempts to make sense of the spine-chilling crime committed in September 2020 against... more This paper attempts to make sense of the spine-chilling
crime committed in September 2020 against a young Dalit
woman from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh who was brutally
gang raped, mutilated and left to die in the fields. This was
followed by the casteist and heartless behavior of the
Uttar Pradesh police who burned the woman’s body in
the dead of the night while locking away her family in
their house. The paper then questions if the treatment
meted out to the girl and her family would have been the
same if they belonged to the upper castes of the Indian
society. The paper is divided in four sections. The first part discusses the case and contextualizes the caste status
of the victim in the village of Hathras. The second part
scrutinizes the larger caste-class-gender nexus in India,
particularly in relation to women’s bodies. The third part
of the paper situates the rape and assault in relation to
the other debates around sexual violence in post-colonial
India, particularly the extraordinary nature of the 2012
Delhi gang-rape case. In the fourth and final part, the
paper describes the aftermath of the burning of the Hathras
victim’s body and the state’s response to the crime.