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Dalit History Month – Inspirational Living Smile Vidya
Today in Dalit History we honor the inspirational Living Smile Vidya. An activist, actress and author, Living Smile Vidya has transformed trans politics in India through the fearlessness of her wor…
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 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 Madhu Bai Kinnar
Dalit History is vital for understanding tour vibrant parallel culture that defiantly exists next to more conventionally taught Brahmin history for our countries in South Asia.
In this spirit today…
5th April in Dalit History – Death anniversary of Jhalkari Bai
5th April in Dalit History – Death anniversary of Jhalkari Bai
Jhalkari Bai
Also Read – Jhalkari Bai – A legendary Dalit Woman Warrior
Mahatma Jotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule’s Contribution Towards Women Empowerment
To celebrate Women’s Day without recognising the contribution of Dr Ambedkar, Savitribai Phule, and Mahatma Jotiba Phule is hypocrisy and shameful act. Savitribai Phule and Jotiba Phule worked imme…
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Fight for Women’s Rights
Cartoon published in Shankar’s Weekly in December 1949. Dr Ambedkar holding the hand of a little girl named Hindu code bill and leading her towards the Parliament and a Brahmin holding an axe in ha…
28th January in Dalit History – First Ever Infanticide Prohibition Home of India Was Started by Savitribai Phule
28 January 1853: First ever infanticide prohibition home of India was started by Savitribai Phule.
Due to the Brahminical Social Order, those were the days when women irrespective of their caste a…
Marathi Movie on Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar – Ramai
This movie is a biography of Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar also known as Ramabai wife of Dr. Babasaheb. She lost her parents at a very young age and brought up her two young brothers all alone. She was …
Savitribai Phule Poems
Savitribai Phule was the first Dalit women, in-fact first women whose poems got noticed in the British Empire. Savitribai Phule was the mother of modern poetry stressing the necessity of English an…
“I, Phoolan Devi – The autobiography of India’s Bandit Queen”
I wanted to prove that we all have our honour, whatever our origins, our caste, the colour of our skin or our sex. — Phoolan Devi
I was about sixteen years old the day Phoolan Devi was shot dead …
‘First Lady’ Teacher of India: Savitribai Phule
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. — Buddha
Savitribai Phule (3rd January 1831- 10 March 1897), one of the supreme names…