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“Lack of strong Dalit movement in Gujarat gives RSS-VHP-BJP a free run”

by rti_adminon December 13, 2012March 20, 20230

Anoop Kumar Gujarat assembly elections are here, and Round Table India takes this as an opportunity to post an interview of French Scholar Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot that was first published by the Dalit students’ magazine ‘Insight Young Voices’ (Feb-March, 2008). This interview was taken by Anoop Kumar for the magazine on the eve of …

Dalitbahujan Renaissance

Jotirao Phule: Shetkaryaca Asud (Introduction)

by rti_adminon November 29, 2010March 20, 20230

Translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar A brief introduction to Phule: Jotirao Phule (1827-1890) is considered a founder not only of the anti-caste movement; in Maharashtra he is also looked upon as father of the farmers’ movement, the women’s movement, and a bahujan-oriented environmental movement. He was born in a Mali (gardener jati) …