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TagDalit 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 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…
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…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Feminist Dalit Organization
Today’s Dalit History post is a reminder that Dalits are not limited to India. Dalit’s in fact are found all over South Asia and their experiences of caste discrimination are hidden within the larg…
Dalit History Month – Incredible participation of Dalits at the World Social Fourm of Mumbai
Today’s Dalit History Month post focuses on the incredible participation of Dalits at the World Social Fourm of Mumbai.
Some background: originally the World Social Fourm (WSF) had been convened as…
3rd April in Dalit History – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar delivered a speech on "Why religion is necessary."
3rd April in Dalit History
3rd April, 1955 – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar delivered a speech on “Why religion is necessary.”
Dr Ambedkar
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Few rare pictures of Bahishkrit Bharat.
Jhalkari Bai – A Legendary Dalit Woman Warrior
Our first Dalit History month post is about the legendary Jhalkari Bai. She was a legendary Dalit woman warrior who played a crucial role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 during the battle of Jhansi…
कांशीराम: राजनीति का बेमिसाल रसायनशास्त्री
भारतीय राजनीति में ऐसा पहले कभी नहीं हुआ. और दूसरी बार ऐसा कब होगा, यह सवाल भविष्य के गर्भ में है. लगभग 50 साल की उम्र में एक व्यक्ति, वर्ष 1984 में एक पार्टी का गठन करता है. और देखते ही देखते देश …
30th March in Dalit History
What Birsa Munda Said
Birsa Munda
Birsa says, give up drinking rice-beer and liquor.
For this reason our land drifts away.
Drunkenness and sleep are no good.
The enemies laugh at us.
The beer distilled from fermented r…
Why wearing Thaali (Mangalsutra) is disgraceful
“The ritual of tying a “thaali” (or mangalsutra) around the woman’s neck at the marriage ceremony and considering her to be his slave is similar to buying a buffalo, tying a cord around its neck an…
23rd March in Dalit History – 10 Dalits were killed in Haibaspur by Ranvir Sena (militant hindu organisation)
Ranvir Sena (militant hindu organisation) killed 10 Dalits in Haibaspur on the 23 March 1997. They wrote the name of the organisation in blood on the village well before they left. Most of the peop…
21st March in Dalit History
Check also – 20th March in Dalit History – Mahad Satyagraha
