Footprints of Fascism in India: Implications for Local Muslims by Usama Hameed

“…The Indian minorities—Muslims, Christians and Dalits—have the same status in a Hindu India which Jews had in ‘Nazi Germany’ and Communists in ‘Fascist Italy.‘ This paper, while explaining the theoretical aspects of classical fascism, attempts to draw a comparison between classical fascist regimes and the present day India under the BJP's rule. …”
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The Evolution of the Right to Water in India by Namita Wahi

“…Apart from the mainstream articulation of the “right to water”, I also describe specific articulation of the right by two marginalised groups, namely <i>Dalits</i> and <i>Adivasis</i>. In so doing, I show how the articulation of the “right to water” has strengthened the claims of the former, but not those of the latter group.…”
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Forum on Rahul Rao’s Out of Time, Part II: Rethinking Homonationalisms by Jasbir Puar, Shirin Deylami

“…Puar also explores how the caste-gender politics of Radical Sikhi during the Farmers’ Protests in India (2020-2021) can serve as an alternative source of inspiration, companion to the queer and trans Dalits of Rao’s book. Shirin Deylami reflects on Rao’s work by exploring the disoriented grammars of the Iranian Islamic state. …”
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From Grief to Grievance: Combined Axes of Personal and Collective Grief Among Black Americans by Da'Mere T. Wilson, Mary-Frances O'Connor

“…Finally, we posit that we must also consider how to further research on this collective grief to increase our understanding of it and to account for similar phenomena that may exist in communities who've had similar experiences (e.g., Indigenous peoples in the Americas and Dalits in India).…”
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Is BJP Conservative? by Krzysztof Iwanek

“…To find the difference between the two, the text will consider a few historical examples of disputes and cooperation between the parties of the Hindu Right (and between Hindu conservatives and Hindu nationalists in general) such as the issue of the civil code reform, the attitude towards Dalits (untouchables) and the question of monarchy abolition. …”
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Inter-Weaving of Local and Global Discourses: History of Early Pentecostals in Kerala by Jose Abraham, George Oommen

“…So, in order to understand the origin and early history of the Pentecostal movement, we need to delve deep into the history of socio-religious reform movements, which were enthusiastically embraced by Dalits, women, and other marginalized sections of Kerala. …”
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Persisting Prejudice: Measuring Attitudes and Outcomes by Caste and Gender by Amit Thorat, Nazar Khalid, Nikhil Shrivastav, Payal Hathi, Dean Spears, Diane Coffey

“…Amdebkar’s legacy is indeed unfinished – people from all backgrounds must continue to work for the equality and dignity of women and Dalits.…”
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Ethnic differentials of the impact of Family Planning Program on contraceptive use in Nepal by Sharad Kumar Sharma, Dhruba Raj Ghimire, Naresh Pratap

“…Multilevel logistic regression analysis of 23,381 married women of reproductive age nested within 764 clusters indicated that Muslims, Janjatis, and Dalits were significantly less likely to use contraceptives than Brahmins and Chhetries (OR=0.27, 0.88 and 0.82 respectively). …”
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Saneamento Básico e o Sistema de Castas na Índia. Um tributo a B.R Ambedkar by Mariana Faiad Batista Alves

“…Seus praticantes, conhecidos por manual scavengers, pertencem em sua maioria à casta mais vulnerável da sociedade, os dalits. O artigo busca relacionar a relevância do legado das lutas anticastas fomentadas por B.R Ambedkar e o sistema de castas nas práticas de saneamento básico na Índia. …”
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Outcaste and outcast: navigating the caste system in indian literature by Loo, Stefany Hui Mei

“…I propose that this is due to a need to construct an Other in order for members of society to preserve their sense of superiority, resulting in the creation of a different system of appraisal; as India slowly shifts away from the caste system, it has simultaneously moved closer to a hierarchy where one’s worth is determined by socioeconomic status, thus rendering low-income servants “outcasts” that are vulnerable to exploitation, very much like the situations faced by Dalits. Because of this, those belonging to the fringes of society—a space in which they belong to Indian society but are prevented from fully participating in it—are kept in this liminal position. …”
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Defining Women’s Representation: Debates around Gender Quotas in India and France by Virginie Dutoya, Yves Sintomer

“…In India, the specific representation of certain groups (Dalits, lower castes, tribal groups) had been the traditional framework for political representation since independence in 1947. …”
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The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss by Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay

“…Subaltern study has been an important derivative of the postcolonial discourse of ‘writing back’ to the ‘grand narratives’ of the colonial West and some of the modern fictions by Indian English writers tackle among other themes, the disturbing issues such as the condition of dalits writhing under the burden of double colonialism and a resultant eruption of ethnic insurgency. …”
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Sandhyopaasan:The Hindu Ritual as a Foundation of Vedic Education by Rajendra Raj Timilsina

“…However, this study has found that some Dalits have also been practicing Sandhyopaasan daily and feeling relaxed. …”
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Caste, The Origins of Our Discontents: A Historical Reflection On Two Cultures by Ibrahim K Sundiata

“…One argument put forward against comparison was that the Indian Dalits (the former ‘untouchables’) were inured to a system that was millennia old. …”
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Representative and responsive bureaucracy in Nepal: a mismatch or a realistic assumption? by Ishtiaq Jamil, Hasan Muhammad Baniamin

“…Findings – The findings suggest that in terms of representativeness, the bureaucracy is still dominated by high-caste Hindus, while other ethnic communities, except the Newars, are utterly under-represented. Surprisingly, Dalits are represented in higher posts as per their percentage in the population, but they are still underrepresented in the civil service in general. …”
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Social inequality in the civil service and a review of affirmative action in Nepal by Tek Bahadur Dong

“…This article is a study of the disadvantaged groups in Nepal, namely Janajatis, Madhesis, Dalits, and women; groups that have experienced exclusion in the state’s apparatus since the mid-18th century unification period. …”
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The Hadiya Case: Human Rights Violations and State Islamophobic Propaganda in India by Adhvaidha Kalidasan

“…With regard to language, religion and ethnicity, India’s diversity under a right-wing political regime has been questioned, while the human rights of women, religious minorities like Muslims and Christians, dalits (lower caste people) and indigenous people from tribal communities have been violated. …”
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Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014) by Yashpal A. Jogdand, Sammyh S. Khan, Arvind Kumar Mishra

“…We caution that emphasising behavioural asymmetry and endorsing the Varna model might further stigmatise lower castes, especially Dalits, and feed into a conformity bias already predominant in caste-related psychological research. …”
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Contextualizing Social Science in Nepal by Dev Raj Dahal

“…The proponents of new social movements in Nepal, such as women, Dalits, Janajatis, Madhesis, youths and marginalized population are seeking a structural shift in reason-based knowledge to both reason and feeling in social science knowledge discovery. …”
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Ethnic Disparities in Contraceptive Use and Its Impact on Family Planning Program in Nepal by Mukesh Mishra

“…Results: Multilevel logistic regression analysis indicated that Muslims, Dalits and Terai madheshi women were significantly less likely to use modern contraceptives compared to the Brahmins and Chhetries (Higher Castes). …”
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