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Dalit by Birth, Beti-jaisi by Adoption: Exploring Caste and Family Dynamics in Bimal Roy’s Sujata Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Muskan Soni
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Folk Horror and Witchcraft: Exploring the Rhetoric of Tribal Evil Tradition and Marginalization of Women in Baso-jhi by Sowvendra Sekhar Hansda and Reincarnation of Parasuram by Anil Ghorai Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Santanu Bera
Sowvendra Sekhar Hansda, a writer from Jharkhand and an ethnic member of the Santhal community, and Anil Ghorai, a Bengali writer have come forward with their powerful literary oeuvre to bring to the surface the helpless agonies of marginalized subalterns and Adivasi women and allow them a voice against the oppression and violence. Both the writers possess extraordinary knowledge and firsthand experience
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Identifying Barriers to SDG Awareness Among Scheduled Caste Youth in Tamil Nadu Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-02-06 S. Lalitha, N. Karpagam, S. Sona, Avilash Roul
Despite the sustainable development goals’ (SDGs) emphasis on inclusion, marginalized youths are denied full participation due to discriminatory practices. Despite a few studies examining the SDGs and their social targets, none has examined young people’s awareness of the SDGs in Scheduled Castes (SCs). In our study, we analysed the narratives of 40 SC youth in seven districts of Tamil Nadu, who have
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Book review: Bhangya Bhulya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas Under the Rule of the Nizams Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Sabyasachi Chatterjee
Bhangya Bhulya, Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas Under the Rule of the Nizams. Orient BlackSwan, First Paperback Edition 2022, xxiii + 296 pp., ₹695. ISBN: 9789354420726.
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Book review: Narayana Sukumar and Paul D’Souza (eds.), The Journey of Caste in India: Voices from Margins Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ankur Kumar
Narayana Sukumar and Paul D’Souza (eds.), The Journey of Caste in India: Voices from Margins. New York and London: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2023, 222 pp., ₹11439 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-032-31977-3, ISBN: 978-1-003-31717-3.
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Gendering Inter-caste Marriages: A Sociological and Anthropological Inquiry of Endogamy Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sargam Sanil
In Indian society, caste and gender are not mutually exclusive constructs. They coexist and are inseparable. India’s meteoric rise to becoming a nation least safe for women as Thomas Reuters reported in 2018, has its origins not only in patriarchy but also in casteism. This is most clearly visible with reference to the phenomenon of inter-caste marriages in India and the resulting perpetuation of atrocities
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Book review: Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Editor), Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sanjoy Jana
Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Editor), Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio, London, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp., ₹995. ISBN: 978-0-367-36097-9 (Paperback)
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The Political Economy Puzzle of Indian Agriculture: A Political Settlement Analysis Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Hritic Gautam
In their influential paper for the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Chatterjee and Kapur raised some fundamental questions about Indian agriculture and why it has not transformed with economic development. They identify six important ‘puzzles’ in Indian agriculture, one of which is the political economy puzzle. This puzzle refers to the fact that farmers have not been able to leverage
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Caste Wise Earning Discrimination among Rural Non-farm Sector Workers in India Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Shiba Shankar Pattayat
This study investigates wage discrimination among non-farm workers, including both regular and casual workers, in rural India between the forward caste (FC) and backward caste (BC). Using data from NSSO unit-level employment and unemployment surveys from 2004–2005 and 2011–2012, as well as periodic labour force surveys from 2017–2018 to 2019–2020, the study found that the wage differential between
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Caste Prejudice, Colonial Education in Kumaon: Dynamics of Depressed Class Education, 1881–1947 Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Isha Tamta
From the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the East India Company slowly acquired the area which is now called Uttar Pradesh. Territories were acquired from different powers by the company were initially kept under Bengal Province. However, in 1833 these, areas were separated and a new province called North-Western Provinces was created. Again, after the annexation of Oudh, this province came
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Caste and Gender Politics: An Understanding of Dalit Consciousness in the Poems of Contemporary Dalit Writers Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Gunja Patni, Sheehan S. Khan
Dalit women face endemic gender and caste discrimination and violence as a result of extreme unequal social, economic, and political power equations because of their vulnerability at the bottom of India’s caste, class, and gender hierarchies. Their socio-economic weakness and lack of political power, combined with the main risk factors of being Dalit and female, heighten their exposure to potentially
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An Answer to Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? A Study of Marginalized Women’s Autobiographies Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Muhammad Imran, Shouket Ahmad Tilwani, Morve Roshan K.
This article discusses marginalized women’s resistance to patriarchal norms in a male-dominated Afghan society. This study analyses the literary modes of selected autobiographies—Fawzia Koofi’s The...
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Accessibility of Water (H2O) and Untouchability in India Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Kunal Sinha
Caste has always played an imperative role in shaping and reshaping the trajectories of any development in India. Scheduled Castes, or the lower castes, signify the categories devoid of resources g...
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Education, Social Exclusion and Inclusive Framework: A Perspective from Dalit Women Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Jyoti, Hawaldar Bharti
The modest attempt of this article is to understand the social exclusion of women in general and Dalit women in particular. This article intends to argue that education is a key instrument for the ...
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Book review: Asit Biswas and Shubh Brat Sarkar (Eds.), Dalit Poems, Songs and Dialogues from Bengal in English Translation Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Bidisha Pal
Asit Biswas and Shubh Brat Sarkar (Eds.), Dalit Poems, Songs and Dialogues from Bengal in English Translation (Kolkata: Ababil Books, 2019), 266 pp., ₹495, ISBN: 978-8-1939-3923-9 (Paperback).
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Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-05-01 P. G. Jogdand
Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Orient BlackSwan Private Ltd, 2021, 227 pp., ₹995.
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Revisiting Multiculturalism in Ambedkar’s Thought: A Theoretical Perspective Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Artatrana Gochhayat
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was not only the messiah of the downtrodden people in India but was also the champion of minority rights, women’s rights, farmer’s and labourer’s rights. He wa...
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Dismantling Caste and Gender Hierarchy: Female-Dalit Alliance in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Meena Kandasami’s The Gypsy Goddess Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Mohosin Mandal
The unique feature of the Indian patriarchal social structure is the existence of caste hierarchy in it, which is an alien concept for Western feminist theorists. Arundhati Roy and Meena Kandasami ...
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Book review: Manju Bala, Dalit Kotha: The Subaltern Voice in a Bengali Woman’s Narratives Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Nurul Islam
Manju Bala, Dalit Kotha: The Subaltern Voice in a Bengali Woman’s Narratives. Authors Press, 2022, 168 pp., ₹995 (paperback). ISBN: 978-93-5529-370-1.
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Centring the Adivasi Literature: Becoming and Being Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Mohan Dharavath
This article looks at four instances of Adivasi (indigenous) writing in India. The texts have been selected to centre the various social and political expressions of the Adivasi subjectivity. What ...
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Subversion of Casteism in Sajitha Madathil’s Kali Natakam: A Dalit Feminist Study Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Sinu James
The feminist play Kali Natakam by Sajitha Madathil explores the injustices encountered by women in a ‘progressive society’ through Mudiyettu, a ritual dance performed in Kali Temples in Central Ker...
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What Ails Dalit Movement: Lessons Learnt from Farmer Movement Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Rajeev Kumar Singh, Akshat Pushpam, Kiran
The demand for equality and a ‘better’ share is always there for any ‘authoritative allocation of values’ and India is no exception. Farmers and Dalit movements present such demands with an aim to ...
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Book review: Ishita Mehrotra, Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Anmol Mukhia
Ishita Mehrotra, Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India. Routledge India, 2022, ix + 213 pp., ₹1,295. ISBN: 978-1032425627.
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‘Can Subaltern Speak?’: Discourse Without Considering Caste an Exploitative Institution Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Nitin Dhaktode
Gramsci’s idea of Subaltern was applied by Indian subaltern study groups to analyse the struggle of the marginalized. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak raises the question of whether subalterns can speak ...
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Games, Mimesis and the Environmental-Imagination: Childhood in Select Dalit Autobiographies Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Kuruvella Babu Shankar Rao
The theme of childhood remains an integral part of any life-writing narratives and, when it comes to Dalit autobiographies it is no exception. Strikingly, researchers on Dalit autobiographies have ...
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Articulating Dalit Autobiographical Narratives in Social Work Education: Ideological Imperatives for Anti-Caste and Ubuntu Practice Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Sudhir Maske
Dalit and subaltern literature have gained colossal space in the global academic community. This literature is prominently studied, analyzed and used in literary, cultural or linguistic studies in ...
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Mapping the Poetics of Memory: A Critical Reading of Manoranjan Byapari’s Interrogating My Chandal Life as Cultural Archive Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Arijit Mondal, Ujjwal Jana
The article analyses the idea of a text as a cultural archive by mapping the question of personal and collective or social memory with particular reference to the acclaimed Bengali Dalit writer Man...
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Inequality in Healthcare Access at the Intersection of Caste and Gender Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Shakeel Ahmed, Sandhya Mahapatro
Health equity is of particular concern in the Indian context in the light of widening economic inequality and healthcare reforms which have wider ramifications on healthcare access. Despite various...
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Social Inclusion of Converted Christians in Kerala: Study of a Christian Family Converted from Pulaya Community Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Jasmine Mathew, Jinu Francis, Ajailiu Niumai, Joseph M. K., Nycil Romis Thomas
Regardless of the significant social reform, the deep-rooted caste system prevails in the landscape of Kerala. The extreme oppression that the Dalit community faced forced them to seek a new identi...
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Role of Women Participation in MGNREGA: A Study in Kethupura Gram Panchayat in Mysuru District, Karnataka Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Pesala Peter
The government of India provides a minimum of 100 days of employment through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). This act will reduce migration and increase purcha...
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Quality of Life and Associated Determinants among Female Tea Garden Workers of Indigenous Communities in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India: A Cross- Sectional Mixed Methods Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Suranjan Majumder, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury
The purpose of this study was to examine the self-perceived quality of life (QOL) using World Health Organization quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) instrument and associated controlling factors among s...
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Dalit Discrimination in Higher Education: A Malady Without Remedies Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-01-27 T. Brahmanandam
Education is one of the most potential variables and relates to different indicators of socio-economic development. Going beyond the campaign for universal literacy, which is otherwise supported by...
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Dissimilarities in Access to Sanitation Facilities by Caste and Region in India and States Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Vini Sivanandan
In India, most people have been finding it challenging to maintain their quality of life, such as standard housing, access to basic minimum drinking water facilities, sanitation, public hygiene, et...
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Education for the Marginalized: A Narrative of Public Sphere and NGOs at the Grassroots Gujarat of India Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Ravindra Ramesh Patil
The Habermasian conceptualization of the public sphere as a bourgeoisie institution of private citizens emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as a ‘discursive space’ to deliberate on critical issues...
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Caste and Cultural Politics in Akhila Naik’s Bheda: A Perspective on Dom Caste in Rural Odisha Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Kuber Nag
Caste has been a taboo subject in Odisha. Although there are multiple events of caste violence and atrocities against Dalits in Odisha, they hardly get any attention from the state, media and civil...
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Normative Influence of the Dalits: A Stigmatized Existence Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-27 S. P. Veroneka, V. Vijayalakshmi
This article discusses the behaviour of the Dalit who hides their identity of being a Dalit and pretends to be a person who represents the other caste that is present in the caste hierarchy. To gai...
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From Traditional to Modern Atrocities: Has Caste Changed in Independent India? Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Ritu Kochar
Committing atrocities is as inherent to caste as caste is to Hinduism. Maintaining these values by enacting atrocities on castes lower in the strata, combined with socio-economic-political developm...
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bhavans/Community Halls in Telangana: An Evaluation Study Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Silveru Harinath
The question of the development of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and its analysis received considerable attention during the post-Independence period. The Central and State governments have been launching...
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An Empirical Analysis of Tribal Identity in Indian Literature Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Don G. Vijayan, S. Umamaheshwari
Homogenizing the heterogeneous Indian tribes might be unfair. However, as large groups of tribal families are the subjects of study, the word ‘tribes’ was adopted as a grab for the underprivileged ...
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Representational Space as Cultural Production in Dalit Text Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-21 S. P. Veroneka, V. Vijayalakshmi
This article discusses how space works in the narrative world of a Dalit writer and how space is evolved for a writer to represent and register their perspectives. A Dalit writer’s representation c...
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Displaced Dalits and Their Issues of Human Rights: A Case Study on the Stone Crushers of Balasan River Bed Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Somenath Bhattacharjee
Human rights actually refer to those elemental rights which any human deserves to have honoured in order to survive, enjoy well-being and flourish or fulfil him or herself by virtue of being a huma...
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Seeking Space in Post-Partition Bengal: Reading Kalyani Thakur Charal’s Autobiography Ami Kano Charal Likhi through a Gender and Caste Perspective Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Soumitra Gayen
Space for Dalits is either hierarchically organized or publicly restricted or perpetually excluded from mainstream Indian society. The process of ‘Othering’ and abandonment of the outcastes for pos...
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Situating Democracy in Ambedkar’s Moral Discourse Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Sangharsh Telang, Mayur Kudupale
This article aims to look at the idea of moral democracy in Ambedkar and his reconstruction of democracy as a ‘way of life’. Much of the work on Ambedkar’s idea of democracy has been significantly ...
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Boosa Movement: A Prologue to the Birth of New Kannada Intellectualism Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Mohankumar B. S., Jyothi N.
The Boosa movement was one of the most controversial incidents in the history of Post-Independence literary as well as political discourse in Karnataka. B Basavalingappa, the cynosure of the moveme...
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Social and Political Concerns of Lata Mangeshkar: An Ambedkarite Perspective Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Pramod Ranjan
Playback singer Lata Mangeshkar was the uncrowned queen of Indian music for over seven decades. Her songs were heard and admired not only in India but also in many other countries including Pakista...
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Invention or Inversion? Revisiting the Question of Caste Tradition Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Aryama Ghosh, Subhadeep Mondal
The main theme of this paper is to revisit the question of caste and the politics of/on traditions. We have explored the questions of mythology; how ‘we’, the lower caste people associate and (re)i...
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Claiming Land Rights: Politics of Space and Identity—A Study of the Tea Garden Community of Assam Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Phulmoni Das, Robin Hazarika
Land and identity issues are interlinked and landlessness becomes a cause of ethnic unrest in the Northeast region of India. Colonial land and forest policy not only impacted the lives of indigenou...
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From the Social to the Clinical: Towards a Psychopathology of Everyday Casteism Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Mahitosh Mandal
Caste has predominantly been understood as a social problem. It is understood as a form of discrimination embedded in the Hindu society that promotes Brahmanical supremacy which, in turn, is founde...
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Civil Society Involvement and Resultant Health Care Utilization: A Study of Sickle Cell Disease Patients Across Communities in Kerala Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Anupama Augustine, Manju S. Nair
Civil society initiatives have helped in attempts to bring equity and efficiency in health systems by providing direct health services to vulnerable sections in society and indulging in health prom...
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Social Exclusion and Education: Analysing the Rights of Dalit Children Through the Lens of Democracy and Citizenship Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Vikram Singh, Kabir Sharma
The educational concerns of the Dalit community must be addressed from a perspective of social justice, as the Dalit community has historically been subject to social discrimination and restricted ...
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Seasonal Migration and Child’s Schooling: A Survival Approach Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Susmita Sengupta, Sanat Kumar Guchhait
The article opts to investigate the long-term effects of parental seasonal migration on a child’s access to school education. The phenomenon of seasonal migration ‘leaving child at home’ or ‘accomp...
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A Corpus-based Study on Selected Dalit Autobiographies Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Mandana Kolahdouz Mohammadi, Mainul Hasan khan
Dalit literature represents consciousness about human rights. Autobiographies written by Dalit authors are based on real-life experiences. Based on the conducted studies regarding Dalit autobiograp...
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Subaltern? Illustrated: A Study of Ambedkar Cartoons Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Barnali Saha
Just like any other narrative form, cartoons too, by virtue of their storytelling ability, have problematized Dalit life history and delineated the trauma, tragedy and unflinching representational ...
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We Don’t Sleep on Rainy Nights Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Athira Jayarajan, Nidheesh Gangadharan
Despite years of social mobility, indigenous people in India stand low in most development indices, and the substandard living conditions make them highly vulnerable to natural disasters. In this c...
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Book review: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar (Eds), Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion, and Resistance Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Kunal Debnath
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar (Eds), Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion, and Resistance. Permanent Black, 2022, ₹1495, x+605 pp. ISBN: 9788178246512 (Hardback).
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The Assertion of Identity: A Research on Meches, Rabhas, Totos and Garos of North Bengal Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Ushasi Banerjee
Anil Kumar Sarkar, Tribes of Sub-Himalayan Region: Meches, Rabhas, Totos and Garos New Delhi: Mittal Publications,, 2021, 178 pp, ₹700. ISBN: 978-8194936084.
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Depressed Classes: The True Unmarriageables Within the Hindu Social Order Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-12-04 A. B. Karl Marx Siddharthar
To dispel all the needless interpretations and confusions about the caste and to compel all the scholars, academicians, legislators, politicians and even the masses not to deviate themselves from t...
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Unrest in the Forest and Ethnocide of the Gothi-Koya Tribes in India Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Keyoor Pathak, Chittranjan Subudhi, Tajuddin Md
The story is of IDP (internally displaced people), particularly of the Gothi-Koya communities, who were compelled to escape from the forests of Chhattisgarh, and are now arbitrarily residing in the...
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Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility across Caste Groups in West Bengal Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sandip Mondal
Intragenerational and intergenerational mobility are two important parameters of social mobility. The study of educational and occupational mobility across caste groups will help to understand how ...
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From Manholes to Roboholes: A Technology-Based Solution for Sanitation Workers Contemporary Voice of Dalit Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Yuvraj, Nirupama Prakash, Poonam Bala
Safai Karmachari Andolan informed the Supreme Court that in 2021 on a daily basis approximately 4.97 lakh dry toilets were serviced by animals and 7.94 lakh were serviced manually. An article in th...