This essay is part of a series by Prof. V. Krishna Ananth where he recalls the events that determined the course of politics in post-colonial India, sometimes reinforcing the “idea of India” and otherwise distorting that. The essays revolve around specific events and their consequences and the facts are placed in context and perspective to comprehend the times in which they are being recalled and re-presented. The series recalls the events on their anniversary, they do not follow a chronological order and are seen as moments in history.
The evening of 29 September 2006, Bhayalal Bhotmange managed to save himself from being lynched to death hiding behind a bush but experienced the horror of watching his wife Surekha and his 17 old daughter Priyanka, being sexually assaulted and killed by a mob of Kunbi men from his own village. Bhayalal Bhotmange was also witness to the murder by the same mob of his two sons Roshan (21) and Sudhir (19 and suffering from visual impairment). The Bhotmange family was one of the three that belonged to the Mahar Dalit caste in Khairlanji, a village in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra. The upper caste Kunbis constituted a small minority in Khairlanji, while the majority of the 200 families in the village belonged to either Other Backward Castes (OBCs) or to Scheduled Tribes (STs). From the limited records of the tragic events of 29 September 2006 it is inferred that,…
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