Are the Hindutva leaders ready to debate the state of Dalits?
Contrary to the politics of status quo by the Hindutva politics, the Dalit politics advocates “revolt” against unjust system.
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Hindu Right, Ambedkar and JNU Politics
The ABVP activists are hopeful that their “achievement” of having the library renamed after Dr Ambedkar will help them woo lower-caste students, particularly Dalits. With the JNUSU elections approaching, the Hindutva organization is desperate to broaden its social base by such acts of appropriation and tokenism
‘Speculative figures promote dangerous casteism’
Professor Amitabh Kundu says that the last time we had a caste census was almost a century ago and it’s high time the government based its programmes and quotas on recent robust and comparable data
Data under guard
Empirical evidence don’t seem to be enough to convince some people of the need for a caste census. Their unwillingness to see any usefulness in a caste census is the result of their increasing fear that the release of the figures may officially give the seal of approval to the views that the upper castes, despite being in minority, continue to appropriate the overwhelming share of resources.
Untouchability dies hard
Empirical evidence points to widespread discrimination against Dalits today – from the villages, to the cities, to even among the diaspora.
Like Marx And Ambedkar, One Can Articulate Others’ Sufferings: Badri Narayan
Abhay Kumar Interviews Badri Narayan