For An Informed Ambedkar Age
by Ben Antao THE WEAVE of My Life by Urmila Pawar is more than a Dalit woman’s memoirs; it’s a bold yet intelligent critique of casteism coupled with feminist politics in Maharashtra towards the last quarter of the 20th century. And to think that a woman from the Mahar caste could rise above her poor …
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto ________________________________________________ Contents PART IV – What the Untouchables have to face Chapter 12 : Antagonism of the administration Chapter 13 : Problem of discrimination Chapter 14 : Problem of isolation
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto ________________________________________________ Contents Part I: What It Is to be an Untouchable . Chapter I: Untouchability—its source Chapter 2: Untouchables—their numbers Chapter 3 : Slaves and untouchables Chapter 4 : The Indian ghetto—the centre of untouchability—outside the fold Chapter 5 : Unfit for human association
by Gowri Ramnarayan The Grip of Change is a work of literature, not a manifesto. THE first thing that strikes you about The Grip of Change? Author P.Sivakami’s translation makes you forget it was written originally in Tamil. More remarkably, in dealing with life in a Dalit community, it deals with life itself. It is a work …
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto ________________________________________________ Contents PART III – Roots of the Problem Chapter 8 : Parallel cases Chapter 9 : Hindus and want of public conscience Chapter 10 : Hindus and their want of social conscience Chapter 11 : The hindu and his belief in caste
Untouchables or The Children of India’s Ghetto __________________________________________________________________ Contents PART II Chapter 6 : Untouchability and lawlessnes Chapter 7 : Why lawlessness is lawful? PART II CHAPTER 6
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes will be organizing awareness camps in all divisions/mandals of all States/UTs in order to disseminate the information about their rights and safeguards provided in the Constitution of India. The Commission during its interaction with various organizations has observed that the majority of Scheduled Caste people are not aware of …
Translated by Gail Omvedt and Bharat Patankar Chapter 1 Due to the dominance of the selfish Bhat-Brahmans in all government departments, they have been able to so deceive the ignorant farmers with the sham of their self-interested religion that they have no resources left to send their tiny children to school, and even those who …
As per NFHS-3, undernutrition is 42.5 % in children below five years. It is 47.9% in Scheduled castes, 54.5% in scheduled tribes and 42.3% in other backward classes. In rural areas it is 45.6 % as compared to 32.7 % in urban areas. 35.6 % of women suffer from Chronic Energy Deficiency (CED). The prevalence …