Indian Dalits Are Suddenly Everywhere!
The Indian Dalit activists have easily related to recent alternative global networks. It may not be obvious what make Dalit activists, whom are focussed on such a unique and regionally specific question as caste discrimination in India interested in or even able to relate to movement activists in other parts of the world. What are the circumstances that make the Dalit activists well prepared and equipped to move into these new kinds of global networks? To answer the question an overview of the Dalit movement will be presented. It will be discussed how experiences within the Dalit movement have facilitated interrelations with other movement activists at occasions like the World Social Forums. The heterogeneity in movement perspectives and organizational structure as well as the Internet use in the Dalit movement will be dwelt on, in the light of alternative global networks. The article relates, with the help of ethnography, one account among many of what is called alternative globalization.