For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Law And Society Committee, NLSIU Conference organized by the Law and Society Committee, National Law School of India University in collaboration with Centre for Social Justice and UN Women. The impact that caste has on people’s lives is real and far-reaching. However, caste is, at present, a subject that is greatly misunderstood by a largely savarna academia which …
Savari (Round Table India thanks Savari for sharing this article) Universally, the imagery of a whip evokes the reality of violence throughout human history. The whip is inseparable from violence against slaves, dalits, women, animals and children. Almost all histories of protest against injustice, be it feminism, anti-slavery, anti-caste or anti-apartheid movements have protested and …
by Chandrabhan Prasad A novelist friend has just returned from Oxford. She was there to attend a Dalit-related talk where the UN-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, to be held in Durban this year, came up for discussion. She wondered why European scholars were not easily prepared to equate caste-based discrimination with that of race. Another …