Scholar-activist Debi Chatterjee traces her shift from apartheid studies to anti-caste politics, Dalit feminism, and Bengali ...

The story of Bengali Dalit literature is a story of silence, the silence of a community too dispersed to come together as a ...

By and large, the Dalit movement has been led and controlled by urban-based petty bourgeoise Dalits, and has tended to neglect Dalits living in villages. If you consider the demographic profile of ...

Pre-colonial resistance to Brahminism—the ideological source of caste—often took quasi-religious forms. The Dravidian movement secularised the caste question and shattered Brahmin hegemony, but it did ...

During the month of April, millions of Ambedkarites and caste-abolition allies celebrate Dalit History Month. Launched in 2015 by a collective of Dalit feminists, including Thenmozhi Soundararajan and ...

With the VCK emerging as a key force in Tamil Nadu’s changing political landscape after extending support to Vijay’s TVK in the formation of the new government, TNM is republishing this detailed ...

This week, grisly news emerged of the deaths of two Dalit children in India: An infant and toddler were burned alive in an arson attack in Faridabad, a city near Delhi. Their father, Jitender Kumar, ...

Indian activists hold candles and portraits of 20th century Indian social reformer B. R. Ambedkar as they take part in a protest against a Supreme Court order that allegedly diluted the Scheduled ...

The history of the Ambedkarite movement abroad has been well documented, sustained by activists, scholars and organic journalism. Ambedkar Times was conceived by Prem Chumber, later joined by Desh ...

Karnataka Sahitya Academy, in collaboration with the Kannada Studies Centre and Bangalore University, will be organising a three-day study camp titled ‘Dalit Literature and Movement-50’ at ...

On April 14, the annual spotlight remained on processions and politics marking the birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar, the head of the Constitution’s drafting committee who championed Dalit rights.