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Inequality in Access to Medical Education in India: Implications for the Availability of Health Professionals

Caste, 2022
This study examines the access of students from diverse backgrounds to medical education in India. It shows how inequalities existing in society may entail significant social injustices with regard to access to a career in medicine.
Khalid Khan
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In Search of a Utopian Society: Situating ‘Dalit’ Conversions in Contemporary India

Caste, 2023
Religious conversions, particularly those originating from marginalized communities, have been a subject of scholarly investigation in colonial and post-colonial India.
L. David Lal
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Dalit Counterpublic and Social Space on Indian Campuses

Caste, 2020
This article discusses three different university campuses in India (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Osmania University, and the English and Foreign Languages University) and their political and social environments with a particular focus on Dalit student ...
Kristina Garalyte
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Performativity in Dalit Literature: Identification, Disidentification and Re-identification in Contemporary Dalit Personal Narratives [PDF]

, 2021
Dalit identity is one of the core aspects explored and expressed in Dalit literature. Some Dalit writers attempt to understand and define Dalit identity while some “propagate their view on Dalit identity” (Shah 215).
Simon, Surya
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Towards an Alternative Epistemology of Resistance: A Reading of Pulayathara by Paul Chirakkarode Against the Backdrop of Dalit Christian Liberation Movements in Kerala, India

Caste, 2023
Religious conversion in Kerala was an immediate solution for the lower caste people who sought to break free from the slavery and structural inequalities of caste.
Bincy Mariya N.
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No difference between a Dalit woman and a Brahmin woman: Dalit Panther founder

, 2022
JV Pawar, one of the founders of Dalit Panther, which drew the attention not only of India but of the entire world in the early 1980s, talks to Rajshree Saikia on Dalit literature.
Rajashree Saikia
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Imagining an Anti-Caste Utopia Through Food: Dalit Student Politics in Hyderabad, India

Caste, 2023
This article explores the connection between food and utopia within the Dalit student movement. Research data was gathered during the multi-stage ethnographic fieldwork in the university campuses in New Delhi (Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of ...
Kristina Garalytė
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'Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader'

Caste, 2023
This reader is a compilation of eighteen essays written by academics, feminists and scholar-activists from a Dalit Feminist Perspective. The editors Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore, introduces the book by theorizing Dalit feminism underpinning its
Preeti .
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Intersecting Dalit and Cultural Studies: De-brahmanising the Disciplinary Space

Caste, 2020
The paper begins with the context in which Dalit culture and resistance emerges and the way brahmanical social order tries to maintain their status quo through established cultural inequalities with the dominance of power and knowledge.
Prashant Ingole
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WE are Dalit History

Cracow Indological Studies, 2021
Life writings had time and again been used as source material for historical research both in the West and the various literary cultures of South Asia.
Monika Browarczyk
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