There are many definitions of history. But for me, as an artist, dreamer, and an unapologetic Ambedkarite, history has often been a crime scene — a place of distortion, manipulation, and theft. What ...

During the month of April, millions of Ambedkarites and caste-abolition allies celebrate Dalit History Month. Launched in 2015 by a collective of Dalit feminists, including Thenmozhi Soundararajan and ...

While Black History Month has decades of institutional recognition, Dalit History Month is a grassroots initiative—yet its theoretical and political importance is equally profound... Every February, ...

New Delhi: A verdict awaited at the India International Centre on 24 April as academicians Yagati Chinna Rao and Raj Sekhar Basu placed the volume, Identity, Conflict, and Counter-narratives: Dalit ...

VICTORIA (IANS) – In a historic move, the New Democratic Party (NDP) government in Canada’s British Columbia province has recognized Apr. as the Dalit History Month. Responding to an application moved ...

A new book gives readers a peek into the life and times of foremost Dalit thinkers, who tirelessly battled divisive forces all their lives and today act as a source of inspiration, not only to the ...

Aleena is a 29-year-old poet from Kerala, is well-known for her collection of poems in Malayalam called Silk Route. The book won her the 2021 Kerala State Sahitya Akademi Kanakashree Award. She also ...

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

Rawat Ramnarayan, associate professor of history, has co-edited Dalit Journeys for Dignity (Orient Black Swan, 2025). The book focuses on the theme of Dalit struggles for dignity in India. It begins ...

I am a historian of South Asia with particular interests in colonial and postcolonial India, racism and social exclusion, subaltern histories, and histories of democracy. My research focuses on Dalits ...

Dalit studies: new perspectives on Indian history and society / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana -- The Indian Nation in its egalitarian conception / Gopal Guru -- Probing the historical -- ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...