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Dalit Women – At the Centre of Inhuman Discrimination
Many empirical studies have been produced by the renowned institutions to prove how the caste system creates a vicious cycle of poverty and discrimination that affects the people at the lower rungs…
Mukta Salve – First Voice of Dalit Feminism
Jotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule, the social revolutionary couple started first girls’ school at Budhawar Peth in Pune in 1848. While working to educate women and lower castes, they both taught an…
Grief of the Mangs and the Mahars – First Ever Writing By a Dalit Woman – Mukta Salve
Mang Maharachya Dukhvisayi (About the grief of the Mangs and the Mahars)
(This article, originally published in 1855 has been reproduced here from the 2008 book A Forgotten Liberator: The Life a…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Thulasi Helen – The Lady Muhammad Ali of India
Today in Dalit History, we celebrate the achievements and the struggle of the Lady Muhammad Ali of India, Thulasi Helen.
Thulasi Helen first saw her her older sister Saraswathi taking up boxing …
Dalit History Month – Remembering Mukta Salve, First Dalit Woman Writer
Today in Dalit History Month we celebrate a Dalit Feminist icon Mukta Salve (also referred to as Muktabai) who was born in a Mang community. She was the granddaughter of Krantiveer Lahuji Salve, a …
Dalit History Month – Remembering Jhalkaribai, A Legendary Dalit Woman Warrior
Jai Bhim! Happy Dalit History Month 2017! Whole April month is celebrated as Dalit History Month by Dalit-Bahujans.
“Our first Dalit history month post is about the legendary Jhalkaribai. She wa…