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Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Policy Position on Caste-based Discrimination
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has prepared this policy statement to raise awareness of people’s rights and legal obligations to prevent and address caste-based discrimination under Ont…
Remembering Bruno Latour – A Note on a Brahminical Attempt of Academic Ghettoization
Author – Dipak Barkhade
The act of remembering a young Latour invites Ambedkarite scholars to engage with the question of what historical sense they would make of “Indian” modernity?
Bruno La…
Resolutions of 1st World Dalit Convention, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998
1ST WORLD DALIT CONVENTION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Held on 10th & 11th October 1998
Organised By The Dalit International Organisation
Sponsored By The Indian Progressive Front, Malaysia
Decla…
Ambedkar International Center Files Amicus Brief in the Cisco Caste Lawsuit
Ambedkar International Center USA has filed an Amicus Brief in Cisco Caste Discrimination Case in California, USA.
Ambedkar International Center has filed an amicus curiae brief opposing Cisco’s…
Upper Caste Migration to America – Allies of the White Supremacists
Author – Anuradha Bele
According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, untouchability and slavery were linked in their hostility to democracy and blacks and untouchables were linked by a shared social stat…
Government Scholarships for SCs, STs and OBCs to Pursue Higher Studies in India and Abroad
The focus on affirmative action policies in the popular discourse often zeros down to reservations. Currently, reservations are the strongest form of affirmative action which need to be vehemently …
Dalit Organisations in the UK support the Black Lives Movement and call on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to act on Caste Discrimination in the UK
The Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA), on behalf of a number of Dalit organisations in the UK has issued a statement (read it at the end of this post) in support of the Black Lives Matter m…
Continuing Dalit and African-American Engagement With Each Other’s Struggle
The murder of George Floyd has invited many comparisons once again with the condition, the situation, the resistance and the political organizations of Dalits and the African-Americans. When people…
Solidarity With Minneapolis Protesters and Black Lives Matter Campaign – Statement From Pan India Ambedkarite Law Students’ Forum (India)
We, the students and academicians of Pan India Ambedkarite Law Students’ Forum (India) stand in unconditional solidarity with the protesters in Minneapolis raising their voice against the instituti…
बहुजन समाज के लिए मैलकम X के संघर्ष को जानना क्यों जरूरी है?
Malcolm X(एक्स ), नस्लीय असमानता के खिलाफ जंग छेड़ने वाला महान अफ़्रीकी-अमरीकी योद्धा।
अमरीका में नस्लीय असमानता के खिलाफ लम्बा संघर्ष हुआ, जिसमें कई महान नेताओं ने अपनी अहम भूमिका निभाई। इन सब मे…
When Martin Luther King Jr. Was “Introduced” As An Untouchable In India
Dalits from almost last one century have been trying to build solidarity among discriminated communities across the world. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar had written to Du Bois in 1946 to collaborate with A…
Ambedkarite Thinkers Series – Derdák Tibor, Founder of Jai Bhim Network, Hungary
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women, those of us who are poor, who are lesbian, who are Black, who are older – know that survival is not an ac…
Ambedkarite Organisation Series – Jai Bhim Network and Ambedkar High School, Hungary
Roma is a discriminated community all over Europe with a population of around 10million. There are striking similarities between the Dalits of India and Roma of Europe. Both face social boycotts to…
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[Book Review] The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy (An Ambedkarite Reading)
The Light That Failed is an analysis of how the western concept of democracy failed by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries in the eastern block tried t…
Understanding Philosophy of John Dewey
According to K.N. Kadam, Babasaheb Ambedkar planned a book on Philosophy of John Dewey. Babasaheb Ambedkar famously said that he owed his intellectual life to John Dewey. The Philosophy of John Dew…