During the month of April, millions of Ambedkarites and caste-abolition allies celebrate Dalit History Month. Launched in 2015 by a collective of Dalit feminists, including Thenmozhi Soundararajan and ...

There are many definitions of history. But for me, as an artist, dreamer, and an unapologetic Ambedkarite, history has often been a crime scene — a place of distortion, manipulation, and theft. What ...

Every April, Dalit History Month brings caste and resistance into public conversation. Yet Dalit women continue to be represented through a narrow frame, centred on violence, labour, and survival, ...

Dalit studies: new perspectives on Indian history and society / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana -- The Indian Nation in its egalitarian conception / Gopal Guru -- Probing the historical -- ...

Baba saheb ka dusra naam, Kanshi Ram-Kanshi Ram—this slogan is widely recognised in the Dalit-Bahujan movement. Kanshi Ram’s followers affectionately refer to him as Bahujan Nayak, Manyavar and Saheb.

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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vijay Surwade may have worked as a bank manager by day – but for five decades he spent his evenings building one of the world's biggest archives ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

A few years ago, Dalit mental health was introduced into the social consciousness of the country. A correlation seemed to be made between caste discrimination and deteriorating mental health of the ...