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What is stopping ‘Dalit scholars’ from submitting their PhDs?

by rti_adminon May 24, 2023May 25, 2023Leave a Comment19

donna Competing ‘merit’ is cultural violence- ‘Merit as pus’[1] On March 29, 2023, the Union Minister of State for Education shared with the Rajya Sabha the number of dropouts among SC, ST, and OBC students in the educational institutions of India. The debate still revolves around the kind of schemes offered and the funds/fee waivers …

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Cartoons, Caste and Epistemic Violence (Part 2)

by rti_adminon September 4, 2012March 20, 20230

Nilesh Kumar [This is the second part of his article on caste and epistemic violence. The first part explored how the Ambedkar cartoon in the NCERT text book was a metaphor for epistemic violence. Here, he tries to explain how the cartoon is just one more illustration of how entrenched violence is in academia; one …