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ABSTRACT Background and Aims Maternal health remains a serious concern in urban low‐resource settings where healthcare disparities persist. Women residing in slums in Nepal face multiple obstacles that delay access to health facility‐based delivery services, contributing to high maternal mortality.
Bijaya Mani Devkota +5 more
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This text weaves reflections on the (im)possibility of foregrounding caste-subalterns’, specifically Dalits’ experiences and imaginations of the Bengal Famine of 1943.
Ram Krishna Ranjan
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Intertwined Critical Realms: Caste, Babas, Deras, and Social Capital Formation in Punjab (India)
Deras are generally perceived as an alternative socio-religious space frequented mostly by lower castes and economically weaker sections of society. They promise to make a significant difference to the lives of such vulnerable sections of society by ...
Ronki Ram
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The equity and inclusion issues are widely observed in Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) and Community Forestry (CF) is not an exception. Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) are portrayed as robust grassroots institutions for forest management ...
Sushant Acharya, Bishnu Raj Upreti
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Dalit Literature And The Sufferings Of Dalits
“Literature has becomes an important means of understanding and interpreting the human beings in this society such as politics, religion, economics, social conflicts, class struggles, and human conditions”. In other words, Literature is having two important things: one is language and the another one is human ...
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Deep Segregation: Informality, Trust and the Making of Discrimination in Markets
ABSTRACT This article advances the concept of deep segregation to theorise how social exclusion is produced through the everyday organisation of market access rather than through spatial separation alone. Deep segregation refers to a relational and processual form of segregation constituted through segmented routes of access, intermediary networks and ...
Mohsin Alam Bhat, Asaf Ali Lone
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Language, Violence, and the State: Writing Tamil Dalits [review essay] [PDF]
With the Dalit movement in Maharastra having grown stagnant, and Uttar Pradesh’s Dalit-led Bahujan Samaj Party possibly reaching the limits of its potential development, the vital forefront of Dalit politics has now shifted to Tamil Nadu.
Roberts, Nathaniel
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Caste and Colourism: Analysing Social Meanings of Skin Colour in Dalit and Savarna Discourses
We know little about how skin colour is used to discriminate and dehumanise Dalits in everyday language. Thus, the construction of fairness and darkness of skin colour in savarna perception and the qualities attributed need to be under-stood through the
Kavya Harshitha Jidugu
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Dalit Autobiography: A Study of Dalit Women’s Autobiographies
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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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
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