Shreeja Rao, a young Dalit woman, writes about what it means to forge a sense of joy, camaraderie and community with other women of India’s lowest caste.

There's a simple reason for that, says author Shahu Patole, a 62-year-old retired civil servant and a Dalit. "To upper-caste Hindus," Patole says, "we were not even humans.

In India, a growing number of Dalit stand-ups are opening up about caste and demanding equality – onstage and off. Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer.

A character in an episode of the popular Amazon Prime drama bears several similarities to Yashica Dutt, the Dalit author and activist. Dutt says her story was used without permission — and is ...

‘Dalit Dreamlands: Towards an Anti-Caste Future’ is on view April 6–June 10 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (388 9th St. Suite 290, Oakland) and ARTogether (1200 Harrison St., Oakland). A Zindagi ...

Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.

Bianca Cherechés, The Rhetoric of Dalit Psychological Suffering in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess (2014), CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 5, No. 2, IDENTITIES AND ...

In some ways, Dalit history month is also similar to Zara’s annual sale or what we call in Tamil as ‘Aadi discount sale’, where the works of Dalit writers are sold at an irresistible discount.

Crime against Dalits across India rose by 9.4% from 45,961 cases in 2019 to 50,291 in 2020, Reuters reported, citing data from the National Crime Records Bureau.

Crimes against Dalits increased by 1.2 per cent in 2021, marking a rise from 50,291 reported cases in 2020 to 50,900 cases in 2021, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau. More about ...

A Dalit activist we spoke to said that most people don’t encounter the state the way Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims do. She told us: ‘The state has always had a boot on our necks.’ ...

Shreeja Rao, a young Dalit woman, writes about what it means to forge a sense of joy, camaraderie and community with other women of India’s lowest caste.