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Flaunting noble intentions, nurturing caste privileges

by rti_adminon March 18, 2014March 20, 20230

Asha Kowtal My recent association with campaigns resisting violence against Dalit women has brought me in contact with several individuals, groups and organisations that represent diverse perspectives and histories. Broadly it includes groups which have been advocating ‘gender justice’ and others who have been battling the cruelty of the caste system in India. The …

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Of Power and Privilege: Faultlines in Upper-Caste/Class Indian Feminism

by rti_adminon November 29, 2013March 20, 20230

Huma Dar material to be analyzed (1): upper-caste/class feminists have claimed that only the victims/survivors of sexual assault at an upper-caste “workplace” — the uc middle- to upper-class being implicit here — have the right to “feel confident that they themselves will have the right to control the pace of the follow-up, and also …