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Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke as an Anti-Caste Manifesto

Caste
This essay will focus on the theoretical and political importance of anti-caste writings, taking Dalit feminist author Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke (2009).
SOMA MANDAL SOMA MANDAL
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From Panthers to Political Dalits: Revisiting the Legacy of Dalit Panthers in India

Caste
The Panthers had created a rupture from the earlier pattern that Ambedkar has strategized to integrate the Dalits as one of the important political subjects of the modern nation state. The Panthers deviated and invested in two radical ideological traits;
Harish S. Wankhede
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Caste hegemony within Christianity in Bama’s Karukku: reproducing social spaces of symbolic power and symbolic violence

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Symbolic powers govern societies in subtle ways. Pierre Bourdieu defines symbolic power in Language and Symbolic Power as the power ‘to ‘consecrate and constitute groups’. Such symbolic powers perpetrate symbolic violence wherein one class reinforces its
Pallavi Thakur, Meghna Mathur
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Heading to Chaityabhoomi: Pilgrimages of Remembrance

Religions, 2018
This article explores individual and collective pilgrimages to the Mumbai-based cremation ground (samādhi) of Bhimrao Ramji (Babasaheb) Ambedkar (1891–1956), a renowned economist and lawyer, academician and philosopher, political leader and social ...
Anna Bochkovskaya
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Exploring Narratives of Victimization, Resistance, and Resilience Among Dalits Using Thematic Analysis

Caste
Despite an increase in representation in politics and other fields, Dalits face structural violence in Indian society. There is limited psychological research on how Dalits make sense of their victimization and cope with and resist casteism.
Aritra Mukherjee, Garima Agarwal, Charvi Tandon, Aakanksha Meena   +3 more
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Understanding Dalit equity: a critical analysis of primary health care policy discourse of Kerala in the context of 'Aardram' mission. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health, 2023
Sreekumar S.
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An introduction to the basic elements of the caste system of India. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Goghari VM, Kusi M.
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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 ...
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Religious Conversion and Dalit Assertion among a Punjabi Dalit Diaspora

Sociological Bulletin, 2014
Drawing upon original ethnographic research amongst Punjabi Dalit communities within the UK and India, this paper examines post-transnational migration religious conversion from Sikhism to neo-Buddhism and Christianity, assessing the extent to which this process is simultaneously one of Dalit assertion and resistance to caste-based oppression, thereby ...
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Living as a ‘minority’: A case of Buddhist-Dalits in contemporary Uttar Pradesh

The South Asianist, 2013
In this paper, I will deal with ‘converted-Buddhists’, Buddhist-Dalits, in western UttarPradesh, focusing on their religious-ritual practices and narratives.
Kenta Funahashi
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