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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Dalit"”.
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Tribal Margins: Dalit Belonging and State Recognition in the Western Himalayas
… of Himachal Pradesh, a heterogeneous tribal/Dalit community traditionally associated with transhumant pastoralism on both sides of the Dhauladhar Mountains. The 2002 awarding of Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to only high-caste Kangra Gaddis has instigated a range of tribalizing strategies from …
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Law of the landless : the Dalit bid for land redistribution in Gujarat, India
… of land reforms in Gujarat, India informs Dalit (i.e., 'Outcaste') activism for land redistribution. It takes as a case study the Navsarjan Trust (or simply Navsarjan), a non-profit group that advocates for Dalit land rights in Surendranagar district, Gujarat. I contend that the Dalit land …
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The Status, Survival, and Current Dilemma of a Female Dalit Cobbler of India
… research specifically addressed the female <i>Dalit </i> cobbler (leatherworker), who exists among a caste and class of people who have been severely oppressed throughout Indian history. One female Dalit cobbler from a rural village was studied. Her life represents three levels of oppression: …
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Caste-based healthcare inequality in Dalit communities in Makwanpur, Nepal: A mixed-methods study
… in Nepal despite being illegal since 1962. Dalits (known as untouchables) rank at the bottom of the caste hierarchy and often experience discrimination due to notions of untouchability resulting in poor health outcomes. Caste-based inequality has an impact on the wellbeing of individuals, …
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Ritual Impurity and the Kingdom of God. An additional Chapter to the emerging Dalit Theology
Contains fulltext : 39487.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The Experiences of Dalit Students and Faculty in one Elite University in India: An Exploratory Study
… of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste - the so-called ’untouchables’, who are relatively ’successful’ in that they attend or are academics at this prestigious University. The first part of the thesis provides a background to the study; the role of caste and its enduring …
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An audience and textual study of gender and caste politics in Indian literature
… characters in Indian postmodern, popular and Dalit literature since the 1980s; are the characters in the selected novels and their constructions relevant to the lives of the women that form a part of the audience for this research; what has the chosen literature taught us about the gender …
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Gendered forces at work: tentacular encounters from the nursery
… explicit in this thesis by how postcolonial and Dalit “subjectivities” intra-act to generate new theoretical connections, tensions and contradictions. Theoretical heterogeneity is thus welcomed by putting feminist “new” materialisms in conversation with anticolonial, decolonial and Dalit …
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Boundation & Bindās: Ambedkarite Youth In A Global Buddhist Movement
… who take Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – leader of the Dalit community and author of the Indian constitution – as their hero and exemplar. Some of them are Buddhists or people who follow the teachings of Śākyamuni Buddha in one manner or another. Some of them are just young people in tough situations, …
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Boundation & Bindās: Ambedkarite Youth in a Global Buddhist Movement
… who take Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – leader of the Dalit community and author of the Indian constitution – as their hero and exemplar. Some of them are Buddhists or people who follow the teachings of Śākyamuni Buddha in one manner or another. Some of them are just young people in tough situations, …
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Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India
… is about an anti-caste movement among Dalits (the oppressed as untouchable) in South India, the Parayar. Since the late 19th century, members of this caste, and a few others from Tamil-speaking areas, have been choosing to convert to Buddhism based on conscience and conviction. This …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
… Self, and his approach towards the untouchable Dalit castes. I argue that his fixation with the Brahmin identity as the ultimate Other responsible for the inferiorization of the non-Brahmin castes, and his consideration of this identity as immutable and irredeemable, made a lasting universality …
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… of secularism to garner electoral support from Dalit and Muslim communities. These recurring tensions and the impact of state contestations make his prolific legacy fall prey to nationalist appropriations, more so, because Kazi Nazrul Islam is an understudied and marginalized figure bypassed by …
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
… of historically marginalized groups like the Dalits and the Muslims, with the women from these groups being dispossessed differentially due to their gender. This makes them vulnerable to cross-region marriage proposals. The dissertation draws on a four-year-long field-based inquiry conducted …
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Ambedkar through the study of race, caste, and difference, 1870-1966
… Indian politician, political leader of the Dalit community, and Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee. The general historiographical consensus essentially argues that Ambedkar rejected race-based theories of caste due to his study at Columbia under the Boasian anthropologist …
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
… cis women, oppressor-caste cis women, and Dalit-Bahujan (oppressed-caste and religious) communities.
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
… of society. On the one hand, are untouchable or dalit landless laborers who suffer economic exploitation at the hands of higher caste landowners. On the hand are tribal or adivasi landowning cultivators whose relative autonomy has come under increasing pressure over the past two centuries as the …
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Preparing in Libraries: Educational Change, Joblessness, and Youth Practice in North India
… Several young people from marginalised Dalit and Muslim backgrounds are re-imagining the spatial phenomenon of libraries to set up spaces where members of their community can engage in long-term preparation for upward mobility. Additionally, the thesis also makes a more specific …