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The Journey from Untouchable to Dalit: Pioneering Literary Landmarks and Dissident Dalit Voices of Contemporary India

open access: yesOdisea, 2018
This paper analyses the situation of Untouchable / Dalit people in India through intersecting literature and social realities. It focuses on the most relevant and pioneering literary works of colonial and postcolonial times and how these landmarks of ...
Ana García-Arroyo
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Speaking is Healing: Dalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic Healing Movement in Nepal

open access: yesCaste, 2020
The concept of voice has been central to Dalit studies as well as in other studies such as feminist, subaltern, and social movement studies. These studies have conceptualized voice as an expression of agency and empowerment. They have paid more attention
Amar Bahadur BK
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Depression Beyond the 6‐Month Postpartum Period: A Mixed‐Method Study Among Women in Nepal

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to comprehensively examine social and clinical factors contributing to postpartum depression among women in Nepal and identify their perspectives/experiences regarding postpartum mental health. Design and Methods The explanatory sequential mixed‐method study was conducted in two phases. In the quantitative phase, data were
Sangita Pudasainee‐Kapri   +7 more
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Caste as a Socio-Psychological Construct: Theoretical and Empirical Expositions

open access: yesCaste
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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Ambedkar, Lohia, and the Segregations of Caste and Gender: Envisioning a Global Agenda for Social Justice

open access: yesCaste, 2020
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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Dalit Theology and Indian Christian History in Dialogue: Constructive and Practical Possibilities

open access: yesReligions, 2021
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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The Dalit among the Dalits; the Issues of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati and Urmila Pawar’s Motherwit

open access: yesThe Creative Launcher, 2023
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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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
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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Dalit Autobiography: A Study of Dalit Women’s Autobiographies

open access: yesShanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities, 2020
Autobiography is widely admired in the world as a literary genre. Its importance as a means of self-creation, self-examination, and self-regeneration has been identified by critics and creative authors. Autobiography is a Western tradition where people enjoy celebrating them self and are eager to prove their achievements.
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