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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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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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‘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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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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CasteThis 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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Voicing the Subaltern in African-American and Dalit Women's Autobiographies
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2021 This paper aims to analyse two major autobiographies of Dalit women’s literature and African American women’s writing – Karukku (1992) by Bama Faustina and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet A.
Isabel Beltrán
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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Struggle for Emancipation and Dalit Consciousness in the Autobiography My Father Baliah
CasteDalit life narratives as a genre from the Telugu states are of recent origin. Unlike life narratives in Marathi, Hindi, and Tamil languages, few from the Telugu states caught the attention of scholars. Despite this, Y.B.
Sivatejaa Kahul Koyya
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