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Being Insider-Outsider: Public Policy, Social Identity, and Delivery of Healthcare Services in India

Caste, 2022
The pivotal role of community level workers in the delivery of public services is well-recognized. But, they often fail to provide equal opportunities to all ‘eligible’ beneficiaries to utilize a variety of public services.
G. C. Pal
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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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Strength and Resilience in Tamil Dalit Literature: Examining Dalit Feminism through the Lens of Bama’s Works and Western Feminist Theory [PDF]

International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies, 2023
India has a rich history of literature. But it had been governed by the writings of the men and the privileged class for the longest time. The emergence of Dalit writing in Tamil Nadu was a crucial step towards resisting hegemonised dogmas and reclaiming
Anju Maria Sebastian
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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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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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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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'Ambedkar's Constitution': A Radical Phenomenon in Anti-Caste Discourse?

Caste, 2021
During the last few decades, India has witnessed two interesting phenomena. First, the Indian Constitution has started to be known as ‘Ambedkar’s Constitution’ in popular discourse. Second, the Dalits have been celebrating the Constitution.
Anurag Bhaskar
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Interview with the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR): ‘COVID-19 disproportionately affected India’s Dalit women sanitation workers’

, 2022
While discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the conditions of the Dalit and Adivasi community, this article highlights socio-economic marginalization, exclusion and discrimination that the community faced even prior to the pandemic.
Pariyar, Pritika, Pallical, Beena, Varghese, Juno   +2 more
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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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