Pre-colonial resistance to Brahminism—the ideological source of caste—often took quasi-religious forms. The Dravidian movement secularised the caste question and shattered Brahmin hegemony, but it did ...

The Dalit movement in the country has gained momentum, this time thanks to the Internet. Minister of state for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale with his RPI party members during a ...

Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home town in Gujarat state to mark his birthday over the weekend, the national media focused on the detention ...

This week, grisly news emerged of the deaths of two Dalit children in India: An infant and toddler were burned alive in an arson attack in Faridabad, a city near Delhi. Their father, Jitender Kumar, ...

For more than 4,000 years, the Dalits of India were called “the untouchables,” the lowest of the low. The Dalits are at the bottom of the Indian caste hierarchy and are currently the oldest surviving ...

Indian Scholar and rights activist Suraj Yengde said that Nepal could take a lead role in Dalit empowerment as it had acknowledged at the United Nations that discrimination against Dalits was a ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 73-90 (18 pages) The concept of voice has been central to Dalit studies as ...

Swati Kamble received funding from the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and Swiss National Science Foundation Doc-Mobility Grant. She is affiliated with Dalit women's movement in Maharashtra.

Vikrant Bhise, "Quest of Existence of Being" (2023), acrylic on canvas, 72 x 120 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Anant Art Gallery) NOIDA, India — A pyramidal arrangement of one hundred ...

"Unfortunately, many people in America and Europe are not aware of or know about the vibrancy of women's movements in Asian countries, such as India," says Mangala Subramaniam, an assistant professor ...