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बीजेपी के आरक्षण-विरोध की नीयत व नीति का डटकर विरोध करे – बसपा का प्रेस रिलीज़
दलितों, आदिवासियों व अन्य पिछड़े वर्ग के लोगों का आरक्षण जातिवादी षड्यंत्र के तहत काफी हद तक निष्प्रभावी बना दिये जाने तथा प्राइवेट क्षेत्र में भी आरक्षण की सरकारी व्यवस्था नही करने के बाद बीजेपी क…
Babasaheb Ambedkar and His Significance to the OBCs
After the great Mahatma Phule started the non-Brahmin movement, it reached wide and far throughout India. At the time, the political process in India had not started and the elections started takin…
Debrahmanising and Demythifying Indian History – The Great Contribution of Tatyasaheb Jyotiba Phule
If Gandhi is the father of nation for India’s Brahmins and Banias (Shetji-Bhatji axis in Tatyasaheb’s analysis) who constitute less than one percent of India’s population, for India’s majority of t…
Celebrating Dalit History: The Life of a Revolutionary Poet — Kaleikuri Prasad
Today in Dalit history, we remember Kaleikuri Prasad, a revolutionary poet, author, song-writer, political analyst, literary critic, translator, intellectual, orator, organizer and a leader of the …
Babasaheb Ambedkar and His Significance to Liberation of Women in India
The role of Babasaheb Ambedkar in uplifting women in India is very vital. He is mostly reduced to the emancipator of the SCs by the Brahminical propaganda, but his role in the emancipation of women…
Celebrating Dalit History – Dashrath Manjhi’s Labor of Love
Today in #Dalithistory we acknowledge the incredible power of #Dalitlove in the story of Dashrath Manjhi. Dashrath was born into the #Mahadalit Musahars community from the mountainous part of Bihar…
Celebrating Dalit History – A Woman’s Revolt : Nangeli
Today in Dalit History we remember the protest of one Bahujan woman in Kerala — Nangeli. Nangeli and her husband lived in the Cherthala region of Kerala in the early 1900s.
At that time, “lower”…
Centuries of Humiliation and Struggle for Dignity Continues
“Dalit”, not a caste neither a label but a realization of experiences of humiliation, deprivation, abuse by upper caste people. Word “Dalit’ itself means suppressed, crushed or broken into pieces w…
Celebrating Dalit History – Chinese Monk Faxian’s Travelogue
Today in Dalit History we turn to Faxian, the Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled by foot all the way from China to India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in what are now Xinjiang, China, Pakis…
Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Significance to India
If we look at the constitutional history of India starting from 1917 when it was declared that the right to demand self-governance by the Indians will not be considered as seditious and that progre…
Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Contribution to the Scheduled Castes
(This series of writings will cover the importance of Babasaheb Ambedkar to various groups, communities, ideologies, and philosophies in celebration of his life as a part of his upcoming birth anni…
Celebrating Dalit History – The Resistance of Bhagana’s Dalits
In March 2014, four Dalit girls and women were kidnapped and gang-raped by members of the dominant Jat caste in Bhagana village in Haryana. Rakesh Panghal, the village head, and a Jat, condoned the…
Celebrating Dalit History – The 1873 Namashudra Strike
Today in Dalit History, we honour the Namasudras of present-day Bangladesh, who were Dalits, who played a significant role in the history of three modern nations — Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
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Emerging Mass Movement of Dalit-Bahujans and Indian Politics
After the great mass movement by the followers of Babasaheb Ambedkar throughout the larger part of India, the reactions from the different quarters are emerging. These reactions in response to the …
Ambedkarism – The Theory of Dalit Liberation
Author – Dr. Gail Omvedt
(The article has been reproduced from the book, “Dalits and the Democratic Revolution” by Dr. Gail Omvedt)
‘Ambedkarism’ is today a living force in India, much as Mar…