Archive for September, 2013
Atrocity commits when discrimination exits. Samakalvi Iyakkam-Tamil Nadu (SKI-TN) organization, which fighting against the Child Right Violation raised the issue here in public hearing. In a concept note of, organization pointed to the high prevalence of child labor as a result of caste discrimination and abject poverty which had also resulted in a high dropout […]
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Tags: Child Right Violation, Dalit children, India, The constitution of India
The book ‘We Also Made History-Women in the Ambedkarite Movement’, 2004, originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women’s participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early twentieth century, the book goes […]
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Tags: Aalochana, B. R. Ambedkar's Dalit movement, dalit, Dalit movement, Dalit women, Dalit women's movement, Dr. Babasaheb Marathwada University, We Also Made History
Dalits has broke out the ritual walls and got justice to access the water from public tank of Village Muthulingapuram , TamilNadu which was due right of them. The common tank was constructed just seven months back from the Punchayat fund worth of 1.50 lakh. Dalits were struggling for justice since as they were threatened […]
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Tags: Dalits, struggle Dalits, TamilNadu
Post independence, the Nehruvian approach to socialism rested upon three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain; state intervention in the economy; and a policy of non-alignment mitigated by some Soviet leanings after the 1960s in the field of diplomacy. These features defined the Indian way and even the country’s political identity. From this […]
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Tags: Caste and Politics in India, Christophe Jaffrelot, Dalits, Dr. Ambedkar, Hindu, Lower Castes, OBCs, Religion, Untouchability
About Book: Dimensions Of Ambedkarism The book Dimensions Of Ambedkarism is divided into three parts. Book –I is of Ambedkarism: Dimensions, Book-II includes Economic Dimensions of Ambedkarism and the Book –III includes the broad category of 1. Capitalism, 2. Communism, 3. Gandhism, 4. Buddhism and last but not least 5. Ambedkarism. About the Author Madhukar […]
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Tags: Ambedkarism, Buddhism, Capitalism, Communism, Dimensions Of Ambedkarism, Gandhism
Brother in for her honor killing
Two brothers, who had poisoned their sister and then hanged for loving Dalit boy, were arrested under the charges of honor killing. 17 year-old Hindu girl Gomathi of Seevalaperi in Thoothukudi district had fell in love with Murugan, 22 of Thiruvenkadanathapuram in Thoothukudi district. As the Gomathi’s Hindu family opposed the marriage with Dalit boy […]
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Tags: dalit, Hindu, honor killing
BJP in Odisha practices a multiple standard game just sake of ‘election’ by performing a riot, rail roko and roads blocks at many places against the rape of 14-year-old Dalit girl of Kendrapara district of Odisha, who died on Thursday. During riot on Saturday, shops and business were closed. Khandagiri, Baramunda, Jayadev Vihar, Master Canteen, […]
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Tags: castevirus, Dalit girl raped, Dalits, Election game, Odisha
The investigation has been freeze to seek the justice in the brutally raped and murder case of 20 year old Dalit girl on 24 August in Jind, Hariyana. The key investigation officer is evading and dodging to activist lawyer and Dalit activists, who seeking justice for the case. Over the three weeks after the rape […]
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Tags: All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch, Asha Kowtal, Dalit girl rape, Jind
The Delhi gang-rape case four convicts were sentenced death penalty on Friday within relatively of nine months after the crime was committed. Victim’s parents cried “our daughter finally got justice.” The fast-track court is welcomed and justices by judiciary. But what about the long awaited thousands of thousands such cases who are equally dreadful or […]
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Tags: attempt to murder, Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir, dacoity, dalit, Delhi gang-rape case, Delhi high court, kidnapping, offences, SC and ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, trafficking
The National Crime Records Bureau for 2012 estimated that 12.23 percent atrocities were registered in the country against the Scheduled Castes among them Rajasthan (51.34%) and Andhra Pradesh (24.59 %) reporting the highest atrocities. While, it’s a fact which make worried to the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment that many cases go unreported […]
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Tags: dalit, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Conference on Protection of Civil Rights and Prevention of Atrocities on Scheduled Castes, SC, The National Crime Records Bureau, Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
On the backdrop of the political preparation and falsely promises in the election manifestos force for upcoming election, State president of the Kerala Dalit Federation (KDF) P. Ramabhadran said that the Dalit’s vote will decide the result of coming Lok Sabha polls. Conventional political parties were in a faulty thought that Dalits were incapable of […]
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Tags: dalit, Dalit fund, Kerala Dalit Federation, P. Ramabhadran
The Allahabad high Court bench has passed the order to list in the next cause the writ petition filed by Dalit scholar Kanwal Bharti in which he has mentioned that he was arrested by the order of state cabinet minister Azam Khan as he had raised the question against state in FB post. While, Bharti […]
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Tags: Allahabad high Court, Dalit scholar Kanwal Bharti, IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal
Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India is a biography of the man who drafted the Indian constitution. Several books have been written about Ambedkar before. Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India, written by an American scholar on India, concentrates on the social activist side of Ambedkar. His efforts to bring social justice to the Dalits are the […]
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Tags: ambedkar, Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India, British rule, dalit, ender and Technology, Gandhi, Untouchable
The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012 passed in Lok Sabha to prohibit employment of individuals as the manual scavengers. The new law proposed in the failure of existing laws to prevent manual scavenging and insanitary latrine as an employment. The aimed law widened with definition which includes the provision […]
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Tags: insanitary latrine, Lok Sabha, Manual Scavenging, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill
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