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Defining Bodies, Health, and Work of Dalits: The Decisive Role of Caste in Kerala, India
CasteCaste discrimination affects the health of Dalits beyond limited access to health services or wider determinants like education, employment, income, and housing.
Nandu Kannothu Thazha Kuni
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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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Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
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Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke as an Anti-Caste Manifesto
CasteThis 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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Gender, Marriage and the Elites in India
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.ABSTRACT Scholarship on Indian marriages is vast and interesting, with insights into structural practices and transformations, everyday realities, and maintenance of boundaries and hierarchies of groups. To understand these aspects, studies have focussed on specific caste groups, religious and regional communities, bourgeoning urban areas and emerging ...
Parul Bhandari
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From exclusion to empowerment: learning from the Dalit experience to empower the Bihari community
Discover Global SocietyEquality focuses on uniformity and equity, on the other hand, focuses on fairness. For historically marginalised people, equality perpetuates inequality even more as it doesn’t consider the underlying disparities in historically marginalized groups that ...
Bente Fatema
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Dominance and retaliation in the informal structure of authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar [PDF]
, 2006 In post-independence democratic India several measures have been initiated in order to bring the marginalised and depressed sections of its population into the mainstream of development. While some of these measures have yielded positive results, several
Chaubey, Rakesh
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Social cure research shows that community identification can be a source of beneficial social resources. However, extreme poverty may undermine social cure processes, in a type of social curse. In our study, we examined whether village identification is a source of collective efficacy among disempowered ethnic groups in Nepal.
Magdalena Skrodzka +2 more
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From Panthers to Political Dalits: Revisiting the Legacy of Dalit Panthers in India
CasteThe 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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Shifting conceptions of social (in)justice in Nepal [PDF]
, 2011 The purpose of this paper is to analyse and situate the changing discourses of social (in)justice in the context of political transition and restructuring process that Nepal has gone through since 2006.
Satyal, Poshendra
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