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Speaking is Healing: Dalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic Healing Movement in Nepal

Caste, 2020
The concept of voice has been central to Dalit studies as well as in other studies such as feminist, subaltern, and social movement studies. These studies have conceptualized voice as an expression of agency and empowerment. They have paid more attention
Amar Bahadur BK
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The Dominant Post-constitutional Indian Feminist Discourse: A Critique of its Intersectional Reading of Caste and Gender

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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Ambedkar, Lohia, and the Segregations of Caste and Gender: Envisioning a Global Agenda for Social Justice

Caste, 2020
Dalit women in India suffer multilayered form of marginalization. They are discriminated not only based on their gender, but also because of their caste identity. This impacts their literacy, life expectancy, among other human indicators.
Anurag Bhaskar
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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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Dalit or Brahmanical Patriarchy? Rethinking Indian Feminism

Caste, 2020
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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Disciplinary power and practices of body politics: an evaluation of Dalit women in Bama’s Sangati and P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change through Foucauldian discourse analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021
Through a Foucauldian reading of Bama’s Sangati (2005) and P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change (2006a, 2006b), this paper attempts to delineate the permeation and maintenance of disciplinary power in the social structure and assertion of patriarchal ...
Aditya Ghosh
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Repertoires of Anti-caste Sentiments in the Everyday Performance: Narratives of a Dalit Woman Singer

Caste, 2023
Understanding Dalit women through their lifeworld and life-narratives enables one to understand the caste relations that they negotiate with in their everyday life.
K. Kalyani
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Sex as a Weapon to Settle Scores against Dalits: An Quotidian Phenomenon

Caste, 2020
In the Indian context, caste controls the gender norms as women are producers of the notion of ‘caste purity’. Historically, the violation of caste codes including those related to women have been subjected to punishment through the instrument of social ...
Jyoti Diwakar
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Fertility, Reproduction and Conjugal Loyalty: Renegotiating Gender Relations amongst Dalits in Rural Tamil Nadu

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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Dalit Autobiography: A Study of Dalit Women’s Autobiographies

Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities, 2020
Autobiography is widely admired in the world as a literary genre. Its importance as a means of self-creation, self-examination, and self-regeneration has been identified by critics and creative authors. Autobiography is a Western tradition where people enjoy celebrating them self and are eager to prove their achievements.
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