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Dalit Resistance during the Bengal Renaissance: Five Anti-Caste Thinkers from Colonial Bengal, India
CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 2022 This article debunks the myth that Bengal is a casteless land or that Bengalis have no understanding of caste, by excavating, from within a Dalit historiographical framework, the rich and heterogeneous anti-caste politico-intellectual tradition launched ...
M. Mandal
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Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste
Global 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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Caste, 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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Caste and Colourism: Analysing Social Meanings of Skin Colour in Dalit and Savarna Discourses
CASTE / A Global Journal on Social ExclusionWe know little about how skin colour is used to discriminate and dehumanise Dalits in everyday language. Thus, the construction of fairness and darkness of skin colour in savarna perception and the qualities attributed need to be under-stood through the ...
Kavya Harshitha Jidugu
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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenThe 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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South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2018 Much of the literature on Dalits, and Dalit women in particular, focuses either on issues of violence, and subordination based on class, caste and gender, or the relative egalitarianism within Dalit households, which arises out of a context of shared ...
Nitya Rao
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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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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Changing characteristics of the caste system in India
Әл-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
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Validating Dalit literature as a tool to awakening Dalit consciousness
International 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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