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Defining Bodies, Health, and Work of Dalits: The Decisive Role of Caste in Kerala, India

open access: yesCaste
Caste 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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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
wiley   +1 more source

From exclusion to empowerment: learning from the Dalit experience to empower the Bihari community

open access: yesDiscover Global Society
Equality 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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Baby Kamble's The Prisons We Broke as an Anti-Caste Manifesto

open access: yesCaste
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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Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste‐coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving.
David Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Late adolescents' accounts of marginalization in India: Towards a ground‐up intersectional framework

open access: yesJournal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract Within the broader context of limited published literature on identity‐based marginalization in Majority World communities, research on adolescent experiences of marginalization in a diverse country like India is particularly scarce. The purpose of this study was to explore college‐going adolescents' perceptions of commonly marginalized ...
Ritika Rastogi   +7 more
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From Panthers to Political Dalits: Revisiting the Legacy of Dalit Panthers in India

open access: yesCaste
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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Dalits of Nepal: Who are Dalits in Nepal?

open access: yes, 2010
There 4.5 million Dalits in Nepal out of a total population of 24 million. This is almost 20 percent of the population. This figure does not include the janajatis, who make up 37 percent of the population. Dalits are discriminated against in both law and

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Caste hegemony within Christianity in Bama’s Karukku: reproducing social spaces of symbolic power and symbolic violence

open access: yesCogent 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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Social Status Of Dalits In The Traditional Society Of Uttarakhand

open access: yes, 2022
SOCIAL STATUS OF DALITS IN THE TRADITIONAL SOCIETY OF ...
Singh, C. (Charan), Bhat, S. (Sharad)
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