Bahujan” formulation, arguing that it flattens Bahujan political agency, misreads movements like the farmers’ protest, and recentres savarna epistemologies while ignoring Ambedkarite ideological ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power.Teltumbde critiques ...

Quirky, funny, and quietly profound, Rahul Bhattacharya’s Railsong is a novel to be cherished for its expansive vision of ...

The Menon Investigation is set in the India governed by caste rules. Here, inter-caste couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, in Coimbatore in 2023. | Photo Credit: Periasamy M “Don’t go around in the ...

Far from being confined to religious orthodoxy or rural tradition, it is embedded within modern institutions like the law, academics and cultural systems that re­inforce hierarchies. Discriminatory ...

Bengaluru: Caste, for most citizens, is something they inherit at birth — recorded, recognised, and carried through life in ...

Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

Holi expands well beyond the Indian continent. Hindus celebrate in Bangladesh and Pakistan, plus other countries with large ...

In the world's largest democracy, a hidden data trove and filmmaker testimonies reveal how India's censorship regime has now ...

A Reading in the Biography of a Revolutionary Indian Intellectual By Bayan Saleh Throughout history, women have played ...

Travancore’s Mulakkaram, or breast tax, was a caste-based levy imposed on lower-caste women for covering their chests, ...

Showcased at the Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival, ‘Shakti’ follows a single mother and her daughter as they navigate sexual violence, caste prejudice, and institutional indifference in ...