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Remembering Mukta Salve – The First Dalit Girl Student Going Towards The Buddha
Mukta Salve, a granddaughter of Lahuji Salve, a fourteen-year ‘Matanga’ (untouchable) girl studying for three years and studying in the third standard in the school of Mahatma and Sawitrbai Phule, …
Courageous Raya Sarkar and #MeToo and #NameThemShameThem Campaigns
It took over two decades for the leading ladies of Hollywood to speak against the media mogul who harassed them by the virtue of the power he holds in the film industry. The #metoo campaign really …
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 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 …