Kathmandu, June 17 -- ever National Dalit Round Table Conference concluded on Sunday with a 42-point declaration demanding ...

Facing systemic exclusion, scores of Dalit families in Gujarat are turning to Buddhism. But official recognition of these ...

The birth of the Dalit Panther movement in Nanded is intrinsically linked to the emergence of the Jai Bhim Nagar slums—a settlement of the Dalit community that was more than 50 years old—which ...

This episode was originally published on June 12, 2024 as “The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation.” .” Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving.

Dalit commentators have long spoken about the double oppression of Dalit women, and also their unacknowledged role in the larger Dalit movement. Although Dalit women have a history of ...

Dalit History Month is celebrated in April because it’s the birth month of major Dalit icons such as Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, affectionately dubbed Babasaheb by many, and Jyotirao Phule, a 19th ...

The Dalit writers, however, believed that there was an urgent need for bandaya (rebellion) and were of the view that it demanded more than academically technical language.Thus, emerged the Bandaya ...

The conference underscored the absence of a popular Dalit movement like that in Pawar’s time and spoke of reviving it. The Dalit Panthers themselves disbanded in 1977 due to internal fissures.

“We were covering movements tirelessly and relentlessly,” he says, adding, “Right now, if someone writes the history of the Dalit movement in Andhra Pradesh, they would not be able to evade ...

Sunaina Arya, Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism, CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 1, THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE (February 2020), pp. 217-228 ...

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that a provision has been made for the Dalit Development Authority in the policies and programmes, and the budget for the upcoming ...