Dalit History Month
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Telling Our Stories In Our Voices – Dalit History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
April is celebrated as a Dalit History Month. Here is a note from our Dalit History Month Collective.
Our history is the resistance of peoples oppressed by Caste. Dalit History is of the Subcont…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Rohith Vemula #JusticeForRohithVemula
ROHITH VEMULA was a research scholar at the University of Hyderabad (UoH). In Life he inspired through his activism and in the wake of his institutional murder has now come to symbolize Dalit Bahuj…
Reading Phule – Now No More Silence!
Written by – Subhash Gatade
“Lack of education lead to lack of wisdom,
Which leads to lack of morals,
Which leads to lack of progress,
Which leads to lack of money,
Which leads to the oppress…
7th June in Dalit History – Dr. Ambedkar demanded equal representation of Scheduled Castes in the Executive Council
7 June 1945: Dr. Ambdekar wrote a letter to Field Marshall Lord Viscoll Wavell seeking adequate representation of Scheduled Castes in the Executive Council (letter copied and pasted)
NEW DELHI, 7 J…
Why Dalit History Matters
This article was first posted at Round Table India.
If you want to destroy a society, destroy its History and the society will get destroyed automatically – Dr. Ambedkar
Dalit History Month
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Dalit History Month – Remembering Jogendra Nath Mandal
Today in Dalit History we focus on the powerful legacy of freedom fighter Jogendra Nath Mandal. His crucial role in the founding of India and Pakistan came from his strategic position as the sig…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Dalit Women’s Declaration
Today, in Dalit History we explore the Dalit Women’s Declaration at the Hague. In March 2006, After international advocacy that began as early as 1996, over 200 gathered at the historic Hague Confe…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Ayyankali
Today in Dalit History we honor Ayyankali, the Dalit firebrand in Kerala who fought Caste apartheid through innovation and resistance that inspires even till today. A contemporary of Ambedkar he wa…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Shantabai Krishnaji Kamble
Today’s #DalitHistory month we honor Shantabai Krishnaji Kamble, a Dalit woman writer and teacher. Autobiography is a key form of Dalit literature as we were locked out of many of our larger cultur…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Purna Malavath and Anand Kumar
Today in Dalit History we focus on Purna Malavath, an Adivasi girl from Telangana, and Anand Kumar, a Dalit boy from Khammam, who in a historic feat for Indian mountaineering became two of the youn…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Mahatma Jotiba Phule
Today in Dalit History, in honor of Mahatma Phule Jayanthi, or birthday, we dedicate our post to Jyotirao Phule – an activist, a thinker, and a social revolutionary of the nineteenth century.
Whil…
Dalit History Month – Remembering "Adi Movements"
Today’s Dalit History month post is on the Adi-movements of the 1920’s. For Dalit history, ‘Adi’ ideologies are highly significant as they bear testament to our earliest assertion of equal rights…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Shri Guru Ravidas Ji
Today’s Dalit History post focuses on Guru Ravidass. He represents one of many Dalit saints within our liberatory spiritual traditions who challenge Hinduism and its painful notions of polluti…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Tsundur Massacre
Our Dalit History post for today is on the terrible Tsundur Massacre.
The history of Dalits is haunted by the heartbreaking reality of Caste atrocity. India and the other South Asian countries whe…
The Dalit Panthers
The Dalit Panthers was a social organization founded by Namdeo Dhasal, Raja Dhale, J.V. Pawar and Arun Kamble on 29 May 1972 in Mumbai. Formed in the state of Maharashtra in the 1970s, they ideolog…