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Towards a Vision of the Whole Sky: Tracing the Changing Contours of Dalit Life in Baby Kamble’s Jinna Amucha and Urmila Pawar’s Aaydan

ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives
Autobiographical writing was one of the genres employed by Dalit women in India to explore new possibilities for constructing, confirming and subverting their caste based gendered subjectivity. These writings are a literary and historical corpus for both
Dr Shimi Moni Doley
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Contemporary Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020
Contemporary Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenge dominant ideas in mainstream Hinduism with its inscribed caste and gender discriminations oppressing Dalits.
Pramila Venkateswaran
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The enigma of caste atrocities

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023
The dominant narrative on caste today asserts that the people belonging to the Scheduled Castes or “Dalits” and Scheduled Tribes or “Tribals” face pervasive and disproportionately more violence.
Nihar Sashittal
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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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Ethnographic Tradition of Positive Hailing: Dalit Women, Caste-gaze Inversions and Celebrations of Body and Identity in Viramma: Life of an Untouchable, India

Caste
This article engages Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (1995), one of the earliest ethnographies to foreground a Dalit woman’s voice, marking thirty years since its publication.
Jebaroja Singh
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Toward a Politics of Planetary Care: The Limits of More‐Than‐Human Approaches, Silenced Notes From Indigenous Forest Worlds in India

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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Researching with Dalit Women Activists: An Intersectional Feminist Social Work Approach

Caste
Aligning with an intersectional feminist social work approach in a simultaneity of process and praxis, this article traces and attempts to create an agenda of research that foregrounds how ‘Dalit women’s lives matter’ in feminist research and ...
Shewli Kumar
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The Journey from Untouchable to Dalit: Pioneering Literary Landmarks and Dissident Dalit Voices of Contemporary India

Odisea, 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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‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
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Speaking is Healing: Dalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic Healing Movement in Nepal

Caste, 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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