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Religious conversion in Kerala was an immediate solution for the lower caste people who sought to break free from the slavery and structural inequalities of caste.
Bincy Mariya N.
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Imagining an Anti-Caste Utopia Through Food: Dalit Student Politics in Hyderabad, India
This article explores the connection between food and utopia within the Dalit student movement. Research data was gathered during the multi-stage ethnographic fieldwork in the university campuses in New Delhi (Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of ...
Kristina Garalytė
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'Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader'
This reader is a compilation of eighteen essays written by academics, feminists and scholar-activists from a Dalit Feminist Perspective. The editors Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore, introduces the book by theorizing Dalit feminism underpinning its
Preeti .
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Intersecting Dalit and Cultural Studies: De-brahmanising the Disciplinary Space
The paper begins with the context in which Dalit culture and resistance emerges and the way brahmanical social order tries to maintain their status quo through established cultural inequalities with the dominance of power and knowledge.
Prashant Ingole
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Life writings had time and again been used as source material for historical research both in the West and the various literary cultures of South Asia.
Monika Browarczyk
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Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism
The present paper argues that the conceptualisation of notions like ‘dalit’ or ‘intracaste’ or ‘multiple’ patriarchies results from a misunderstanding of the concept brahmanical patriarchy.
Sunaina Arya
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Dalits and Discourses of Anti-Caste Movements in Kerala, India
This article locates various historical discourses of anti-caste imaginaries and articulations that are imprinted in the historical past of Kerala society. Unravelling historical and social theoretical trends, it examines broadly an anti-caste imaginary
K.S. Madhavan, Rajesh Komath
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'Ambedkar's Constitution': A Radical Phenomenon in Anti-Caste Discourse?
During the last few decades, India has witnessed two interesting phenomena. First, the Indian Constitution has started to be known as ‘Ambedkar’s Constitution’ in popular discourse. Second, the Dalits have been celebrating the Constitution.
Anurag Bhaskar
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Dalit Women in India: At the Crossroads of Gender, Class, and Caste
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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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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