Mahad Satyagraha by Osheen Siva
This artefact forms part of an ongoing counter-archive series, employing papier-mâché to reimagine pivotal moments in anti-caste resistance history. It depicts the Mahad Satyagraha of 1927, led by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a landmark assertion of Dalit rights wherein caste-oppressed communities defied entrenched hierarchies by collectively drinking from the public Chavdar tank in Mahad, Maharashtra. The event also witnessed the symbolic burning of the Manusmriti, a Brahmanical legal text codifying caste oppression. This series mobilizes material and symbolic forms to foreground Dalit resistance and reclaim epistemic agency through embodied, anti-caste historiographies.
This artwork was exhibited at Method in the group exhibition "The Parliament is Now in Session" (August 2025)
| Size |
18'' x 10'' x 9'' |
| Medium |
Papier-mâché, White Cement and Acrylic |
| Framing | N/A |
| Year | 2025 |
| Editions | Unique |
| Certificate of Authenticity | Included |
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Osheen Siva
Osheen Siva (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist and storyteller from Tamil Nadu, India, whose practice spans painting, illustration, animation, public art, and immersive installation. Their work, rooted in the framework of Tamil Dalit Futurism, draws from lived experience as a member of the Pariyar community to interrogate caste, gender, and religious hierarchies through speculative, counter-mythological narratives.
