Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada is part anthology, part cookbook and part rebuke to readers, who may presume Indian food is largely vegetarian. Yet this is a rare book, perhaps the first published in ...

‘The Prisons We Broke’ by Babytai Kamble is a graphic insight into the lives of the oppressed and downtrodden of India. The book contains memoirs depicting the miserable life of Dalit women in ...

His close readings of canonical films like Sujata, Sholay, and Swades illuminate how popular cinema often upholds ‘upper caste’ moralities while relegating Dalit characters to symbolic or peripheral ...

Over the decades, Dalit literature has become ... In the Hindi book Joothan, Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable in India of the 1950s, when he was forced to eat scraps of ...

There are books everywhere, as well as a bust and a photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar, the chief architect of India’s constitution and its most revered Dalit leader. He is a “damn good filmmaker ...

Though abolished in India’s constitution in 1950 ... and Abolition (North Atlantic Books). The word Dalit translates to broken and is the caste Brahmins deem untouchable. But as Soundararajan ...

A critical review of The Shudra Rebellion by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, exploring Shudra history, caste, and Indian civilisation ...

The BJP’s successful outreach towards the Dalit community in the Hindi heartland has been one of the remarkable aspects of Indian politics ... Sajjan Kumar in their book Maya, Modi, Azad ...

Devi, who belongs to the Dalit community — a historically marginalized group from the lowest level of India's centuries-old ... Mukul Sharma, author of the book "Caste and Nature" said that ...

Though Christians in India may not have been clear to Dalits about where God’s heart stood toward their condition, the Bible itself is clear. As the first chapter of the first book of the Bible ...

Here’s a list of significant books that the government of India has banned. The Face of Mother India: Katherine Mayo, an American author spent five months in India travelling and meeting people-from ...