Dalits in India

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An X-Ray of India’s Compassion

The politics of precarity and heightened socio-economic inequality erodes our compassion. The politics of prejudice and the treatment of minorities corrodes it.

▶30-Jan-2024

Rajendran Narayanan

The Death of a Dalit in a Democracy

Dalits aspire to practice the ethics of democracy as their way of life. Yet, when they live a democratic life and celebrate the Constitution as their social public ethics, the consequence is the end…

▶23-Jan-2024

Jadumani Mahanand

The Workers Left out of the Law to End Manual Scavenging

A decade after the law to end manual scavenging, thousands of workers continue to clean waste with little protection. The narrow framing of the law contributes to this state of affairs.

▶28-Sep-2023

Ahana Ganguly

Lessons from a Dalit Protest in Punjab

Dalit labour organisations in Punjab have sought support from farm unions led by dominant castes. Such collaborations serve tactical purposes but also constrain the organisations' autonomy to…

▶24-May-2023

Jatinder Singh

For A Bahujan Economics

Bahujan students face hostility in universities but they cannot give up. They must fight to assert their identity, reject being called “non-meritorious” and master their subjects. One scholar…

▶10-Dec-2019

Aditi Priya