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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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‘Beyond “Dull and Sterile Routines”? Dalits Organizing for Social Change in Tamil Nadu’ [PDF]
, 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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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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Dalit feminism in cremation novel [PDF]
, 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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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