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The Dalit among the Dalits; the Issues of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati and Urmila Pawar’s Motherwit

The Creative Launcher, 2023
The present research article aims to deal with the intricate interplay between gender and caste as articulated in two seminal literary works— Bama’s Sangati and Urmila Pawar’s Motherwit. It unpacks the manifold layers of marginalization and social exclusion faced by Dalit women in the Indian society, who often find themselves in the interstices ...
Ibadur Rahman
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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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The Dalit Identity: Interrogating Dalit Literature and the need for Dalit Women’s Autobiography

International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences
The need for a Dalit feminist position is deeply rooted in the structural and generational experience of discrimination that Dalit women face—both within and outside the broader Dalit movement and Indian feminism. As Bama Faustina Susairaj highlights, the Dalit identity carries a stigma that persists regardless of social mobility, education, or ...
Saha, O. (Oly)
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From Bama’s Karukku ([1992] 2014) to Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (2019): The Changing Nature of Dalit Feminist Consciousness

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2023
Dalit literature articulates the oppression and exploitation faced by Dalits in a caste-ridden society as it records their social and cultural lives before and after India’s independence.
Bianca Cherechés
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'Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader'

Caste, 2023
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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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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No difference between a Dalit woman and a Brahmin woman: Dalit Panther founder

, 2022
JV Pawar, one of the founders of Dalit Panther, which drew the attention not only of India but of the entire world in the early 1980s, talks to Rajshree Saikia on Dalit literature.
Rajashree Saikia
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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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Interview with the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR): ‘COVID-19 disproportionately affected India’s Dalit women sanitation workers’

, 2022
While discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the conditions of the Dalit and Adivasi community, this article highlights socio-economic marginalization, exclusion and discrimination that the community faced even prior to the pandemic.
Pariyar, Pritika, Pallical, Beena, Varghese, Juno   +2 more
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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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