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Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste

open access: yesGlobal justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, 2015
As the lowest in the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-based social exclusion from economic, civil, cultural, and political rights.
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal, Wandana Sonalkar
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‘Beyond “Dull and Sterile Routines”? Dalits Organizing for Social Change in Tamil Nadu’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Drawing on fieldwork with Dalit movements in Tamil Nadu, this article focuses on often neglected aspects of activism. A pervasive lack of resources has rendered Tamil Dalit movements overly incident-sensitive: reacting to caste atrocities rather than ...
Gorringe, Hugo, Hugo Gorringe
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Dalit feminism in cremation novel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The word Dalit was a Marathi word in a common sense of oppressed people. Today, in the defined sense of the Depressed Classes, it is an all-India term and an ideology.
V, Muthukkalanjiyam, Muthukkalanjiyam V
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The Dominant Post-constitutional Indian Feminist Discourse: A Critique of its Intersectional Reading of Caste and Gender

open access: yesCaste, 2022
The dominant post-constitutional Indian feminist discourse is a product of diverse movements born from different histories. These diverse feminist movements continue to inadequately provide a comprehensive and inclusive theorisation of the relationship ...
Santvana Kumar, Ekata Bakshi
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Dalit Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The academic field of Dalit studies is relatively new, emerging since the 1990s in South Asia and in diasporic communities. Dalit intellectuals theorize Indian historiography and social sciences through the lenses of humiliation and dignity, pointing to ...
Rawat, Ramnarayan S., Satyanarayana, K.
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From Sarkivasi (nomadic) to Gaonvasi (villager): The impact of sedentarisation on Rajasthan's stigmatised Nat community

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
The Nat community in Rajasthan is among the most stigmatised groups. Traditionally known as a nomadic entertainment group, they are currently involved in various economic activities, including sex work, which carries significant societal stigma.
Hemraj P. Jangir
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Validating Dalit literature as a tool to awakening Dalit consciousness

open access: yesInternational journal of health sciences, 2022
This paper attempts to understand the role of Dalit Literature and unravels the idea of consciousness as an arena for social protest. At the same time, the present study caters to underpin that concept of Dalit consciousness is a socially and culturally constructed reality which expresses, initiates, and engages social protest as a form of empowerment ...
Kumari Kamlesh, Syal Jyoti
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Interview with the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR): ‘COVID-19 disproportionately affected India’s Dalit women sanitation workers’

open access: yes, 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   +2 more
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Updates on Breeding Success and Conservation Challenges for White‐Rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) in Rampur Valley, Nepal 尼泊尔兰普尔山谷白腰兀鹫繁殖成功研究进展及其保护挑战

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
This study investigates the breeding success of the critically endangered White‐rumped Vulture in Khaireni Community Forest, and examines local knowledge and perceptions toward its conservation. We found that 71% of active nests were successful, with breeding success significantly influenced by the proximity to carcass deposition sites.
Siddhartha Regmi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing characteristics of the caste system in India

open access: yesӘл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2021
In India, during the last three decades, the caste system’s characteristics have changed significantly. The caste system has never been an uncontested reality in India.
D.A.P. Sharma
doaj   +1 more source

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