VICTORIA (IANS) – In a historic move, the New Democratic Party (NDP) government in Canada’s British Columbia province has recognized Apr. as the Dalit History Month. Responding to an application moved ...

Forty-year-old Waghmare Gangubai, an active Self Help Group (SHG) member from Bizzalwadi village of the backward Jukkal ...

Guru Prakash Paswan is an Indian academic and political figure. He is the National Spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata ...

New Delhi: A verdict awaited at the India International Centre on 24 April as academicians Yagati Chinna Rao and Raj Sekhar Basu placed the volume, Identity, Conflict, and Counter-narratives: Dalit ...

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Rohit De and Ornit Shani’s new book, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, traces the demands put ...

Popular ballads and stories abound highlighting the virtues of Kshatriya values embodied in acts of saving the cow from the assaults of Muslim butchers, who were allegedly supplied cows by Chuhras and ...

For more than 4,000 years, the Dalits of India were called “the untouchables,” the lowest of the low. The Dalits are at the bottom of the Indian caste hierarchy and are currently the oldest surviving ...

I am a historian of South Asia with particular interests in colonial and postcolonial India, racism and social exclusion, subaltern histories, and histories of democracy. My research focuses on Dalits ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 3, No. 1, FREEDOM FROM CASTE: ANTI-CASTE THOUGHT, POLITICS AND CULTURE (April 2022), pp. 123-136 (14 pages) Barishaler Jogen Mandal is a Bengali novel ...

A 28 year old woman from India’s socially backward Dalit community has made history by becoming the youngest mayor in India’s fourth-largest city. Priya Rajan, a postgraduate in commerce, was named ...

Curator Manu Kaur rooted the show, on view at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, in Dalit Guru Ravidas’s vision of a stateless, casteless, and classless society. “My family is Ravidassia, and I wanted ...