Join the three-day study camp on 'Dalit Literature and Movement-50' at Bangalore University from January 2 to 4.

The Dalit movement in the country has gained momentum, this time thanks to the Internet. Minister of state for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale with his RPI party members during a ...

Pre-colonial resistance to Brahminism—the ideological source of caste—often took quasi-religious forms. The Dravidian movement secularised the caste question and shattered Brahmin hegemony, but it did ...

This week, grisly news emerged of the deaths of two Dalit children in India: An infant and toddler were burned alive in an arson attack in Faridabad, a city near Delhi. Their father, Jitender Kumar, ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home town in Gujarat state to mark his birthday over the weekend, the national media focused on the detention ...

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 ...

Swati Kamble received funding from the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and Swiss National Science Foundation Doc-Mobility Grant. She is affiliated with Dalit women's movement in Maharashtra.

Indian Scholar and rights activist Suraj Yengde said that Nepal could take a lead role in Dalit empowerment as it had acknowledged at the United Nations that discrimination against Dalits was a ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 2, LEGACY OF GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION (October 2020), pp. 73-90 (18 pages) The concept of voice has been central to Dalit studies as ...

Mukesh Malaud’s arrest has sparked protests, with ZPSC leaders warning of intensified agitations if he is not released.

Periyar challenged patriarchy, caste hierarchies, and traditional norms, promoting women’s education, personal autonomy, and self-respect, with a special focus on Dalit women. His ideas influenced ...