Conference report : Dalit Women Rights and Citizenship in India, 19th March, 2010, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; organised by Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and International Development Research Centre [PDF]
Dalits and Poverty are synonymous to each other in almost all the writings, and this poverty is induced by social exclusion. This conference provided a forum for knowledge-sharing between policy-makers, practitioners and academics on challenges faced by ...
Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS)
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality
ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
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Dalit Theology and Indian Christian History in Dialogue: Constructive and Practical Possibilities
In this article, I consider how an integration of Dalit theology and Indian Christian history could help Dalit theologians in their efforts to connect more deeply with the lived realities of today’s Dalit Christians. Drawing from the foundational work of
Andrew Ronnevik
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Why do some people consider others "untouchable"? Why do upper caste people sprinkle water to purify themselves when touched by a Dalit? This documentary film explores the caste system in Nepal as it is experienced by lower castes - the Dalit - and ...
Madsen, Berit, Berit Madsen
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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Caste as a Socio-Psychological Construct: Theoretical and Empirical Expositions
Caste in India is intricately and inevitably linked to multiple issues specifically in the context of intergroup relations and behaviours, and social inequality.
G. C. Pal
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Dalit women in India suffer multilayered form of marginalization. They are discriminated not only based on their gender, but also because of their caste identity. This impacts their literacy, life expectancy, among other human indicators.
Anurag Bhaskar
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The Dalit among the Dalits; the Issues of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati and Urmila Pawar’s Motherwit
The present research article aims to deal with the intricate interplay between gender and caste as articulated in two seminal literary works— Bama’s Sangati and Urmila Pawar’s Motherwit. It unpacks the manifold layers of marginalization and social exclusion faced by Dalit women in the Indian society, who often find themselves in the interstices ...
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Cage Fish Farming is Bringing in Rich Profit for Kerala Dalit Self-Help Group: Here's how Indiatimes dated 13th August 2021 [PDF]
In the midst of struggles of making a living due to the COVID lockdown, cage fishing is proving to be a boon for the Dalit fish farmers in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, as per The New Indian Express.
CMFRI, Library
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ABSTRACT This paper brings a feminist temporal perspective to understandings of agrarian‐climate crises in monsoon‐dependent regions of India, examining how time operates as a site of material struggle and social differentiation. Drawing on ethnographic research in Vidarbha, it explores how farmers synchronise diverse temporalities to navigate ...
Arianna Tozzi
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