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Explicating the Poetry of Meena Kandasamy: An Encyclopedia of Woeful Inventories about Dalit Women

open access: yes, 2021
Gender and Caste are the key words for Dalit writings. But strangely enough majority of spokespersons of Dalit assertion continues to be men and their representation continue to be androcentric, so it is quite obvious that within the Dalit literary space,
Chatterjee, Riya
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Health disparity at the intersection of religion and caste: Evidence from India

open access: yesDialogues in Health
Objective: The provisions and recognition of Schedule Castes (SCs), the constitutional term for the Dalits in India, have been exclusively extended to Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs (HBS).
Biplab Kumar Datta, Shriya Thakkar
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Reading Dalit Autobiographies in English: A Top Ten List

open access: yesCaste, 2021
Dalit autobiography has joined protest poetry as a leading genre of Dalit Literature since the nineteen seventies. Finding their inspiration in the social and political activism of B. R.
Christopher Queen
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SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘UNFREEDOMS’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Housing Violence in Bengaluru, India

open access: yesInternational 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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“Depressed Sufferings”: Reading Dalit Life-Writings as Testimonies of Collective Resistance

open access: yesNew Horizons in English Studies, 2021
Dalit life-writings have often been identified as reified spaces of protest against the Brahmanic oppression continuing since centuries in the Indian society.
Paulomi Sharma
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DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
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Dissenting Dalit Voices: An Analysis of Select Oral Songs of Dalit Women in Kerala [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The caste and gender configurations in literary and socio-historic spheres that misrepresent or eliminate Dalit women’s voices in mainstream chronicles uphold the notion that caste subjugation has been unresponsively endured by Dalit women.
Placid, Anne
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Ethnographic Tradition of Positive Hailing: Dalit Women, Caste-gaze Inversions and Celebrations of Body and Identity in Viramma: Life of an Untouchable, India

open access: yesCaste
This 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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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Dalit women and colonial Christianity: First Telugu Bible women as teachers of wisdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The paper focuses on the history of the first three Bible women, Mary Wesley, Martha Reuben, and Bathsheba, who came from marginalised communities in Rayalaseema, and emerged as new leaders of social change in the context of colonial modernity and ...
Chandra Sekhar, C
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