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Whereas, in 2006, with the support of the Jesuit society and intellectuals and activists such as Xavier Dias and Ramdayal Munda, Father Stan set up Bagaicha, a research, documentation, and Adivasi training center near the city of Ranchi Whereas, after finishing his work with the Indian Social Institute in 1991, Father Stan moved to Chaibasa, in Jharkhand, where he worked for the Jharkhand Organisation for Human Rights, and worked tirelessly with the Adivasi people to protect their lands and homes from unfair expropriation by the state and mining corporations
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Whereas, through ideas of social justice and liberation theology, Father Stan and the Indian Social Institute trained a generation of young leaders among communities including Dalits, indigenous communities (Adivasis), fishing communities, agrarian communities, and labor movements Whereas Father Stan served as the director of the Indian Social Institute, India’s leading Jesuit institution, in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, from 1975 to 1990, where he trained young people from marginalized communities across the Indian subcontinent alongside educationist Duarte Baretto Whereas, in 1971, Father Stan completed his master’s degree in sociology in the Philippines, where he met and was influenced by Brazilian Catholic Archbishop Hélder Câmara’s work with the poor, and was subsequently put in charge of the Catholic Relief Services charity in the Jesuit Jamshedpur Province, now in the Indian state of Jharkhand Xavier’s High School Lupungutu, Chaibasa, in west Singhbhum, now in the central Indian state of Jharkhand, and there came to love and appreciate the culture and values of India’s Adivasi (Hindi: “Original Inhabitants”) community, as well as understood the problems they faced and exploitation they endured Whereas Father Stan spent his Jesuit regency in 1965 to 1967 at St. Whereas Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy, known as Father Stan, was born on April 26, 1937, in a village called Viragalur in the Tiruchirappalli District in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and, inspired by the work of Jesuit priests from an early age, studied theology starting in 1957 Honoring the life and legacy of Father Stan, a prominent human rights activist who died while in custody of the Indian state on July 5, 2021, and encouraging India to pursue an independent investigation into his arrest, incarceration, and death.