For An Informed Ambedkar Age
by Dr. R. Sivakumar Even as we are in the 21st century, caste discrimination, an age- old practice that dehumanizes and perpetuates a cruel form of discrimination continues to be practiced. India where the practice is rampant despite the existence of a legislation to stop this, 160 million Dalits of which 49.96 percentage are women …
Panipat: In Haryana, a shocking incident of a series of gangrapes with a 13-year-old Dalit minor by different set of people has come to light. The victim, a class 6 student and a resident of Budakheda village of Jind, was gang-raped in a single day by nine different people. The ordeal of the girl was …
Essays on Untouchables and Untouchability: Political _________________________________________________ Contents Chapter 1 : From millions to fractions Chapter 2 : The revolt of the untouchables Chapter 3 : Held at bay Chapter 4 : Their wishes are laws unto us Chapter 5 : Under the providence of Mr. Gandhi Chapter 6 : Gandhi and his fast Chapter 7 : A warning to the untouchables
by Ben Antao THE WEAVE of My Life by Urmila Pawar is more than a Dalit woman’s memoirs; it’s a bold yet intelligent critique of casteism coupled with feminist politics in Maharashtra towards the last quarter of the 20th century. And to think that a woman from the Mahar caste could rise above her poor …
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto ________________________________________________ Contents PART IV – What the Untouchables have to face Chapter 12 : Antagonism of the administration Chapter 13 : Problem of discrimination Chapter 14 : Problem of isolation
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto ________________________________________________ Contents Part I: What It Is to be an Untouchable . Chapter I: Untouchability—its source Chapter 2: Untouchables—their numbers Chapter 3 : Slaves and untouchables Chapter 4 : The Indian ghetto—the centre of untouchability—outside the fold Chapter 5 : Unfit for human association
by Gowri Ramnarayan The Grip of Change is a work of literature, not a manifesto. THE first thing that strikes you about The Grip of Change? Author P.Sivakami’s translation makes you forget it was written originally in Tamil. More remarkably, in dealing with life in a Dalit community, it deals with life itself. It is a work …
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto ________________________________________________ Contents PART III – Roots of the Problem Chapter 8 : Parallel cases Chapter 9 : Hindus and want of public conscience Chapter 10 : Hindus and their want of social conscience Chapter 11 : The hindu and his belief in caste
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto __________________________________________________________________ Contents PART II Chapter 6 : Untouchability and lawlessnes Chapter 7 : Why lawlessness is lawful? PART II CHAPTER 6