Caste dominance and territory in South India: understanding Kammas’ socio-spatial mobility by Benbabaali, D

“…However, this hegemony is threatened by the growing resistance of Dalits to caste and class oppression, while Kamma cultural domination, long contested in Telangana, is now challenged by the formation of the new state.…”

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“…Notícias dedicadas aos desafios das comunidades LGBTQ+ e dos Dalits e Adivasis são elementos-chave para que essas startups reivindiquem para si o papel de mídia alternativa. …”
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25 Years of Economic Reforms: A Blotted Balance Sheet by Harsh Mander

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Negotiating Boundaries Between "Religious" and "Secular": A Struggle for the Sense of Collectivity Among Ambedkarite Buddhists in Maharashtra by Tereza Menšíková

“… Since the first mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism in 1956, followers of B. R. Ambedkar's vision have propagated Buddhism throughout India, creating various activist networks across, but not limited to, Maharashtra. …”
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Contracts of making, viewing and listening: Researching in and through films by Ram Krishna Ranjan

“…The artistic intervention was geared towards both critically reading the film from the lens of Dalit consciousness, and to explore ways of writing that critique in the language of the film itself. …”
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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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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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Rethinking the Atrocities Act: Proving Prejudice and Interpreting Evidence in Rajasthan by Sandhya Fuchs

“…India’s Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA), which aims to punish and prevent violence against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and Adivasis (tribals), represents one of the most ambitious hate crime laws in the world. …”
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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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From a Wretched Past to an Uncertain and Undignified Future: The Open Secret of Manual Scavenging in India by Sanghamitra Parida, Krushna Chichuan

“…This section happens to be part of the generically termed ‘Dalits’ who are the lowest of the lower castes among the Hindus. …”
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A Study of Ethical Implications of AI Tools Enhancing User Conveniences in the Indian Digital Landscape by Biju P. R., Gayathri O.

“…Structural oppression is a pervasive characteristic of Indian society, disproportionately affecting underprivileged groups such as Dalits, women, religious minorities, and geographically segregated communities. …”
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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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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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Health disparity at the intersection of religion and caste: Evidence from India by Biplab Kumar Datta, Shriya Thakkar

“…This study aimed to explore how such differential treatment might play a role in differential health outcomes in Dalit women in India. Methods: Drawing data on 177,346 Dalit women, aged 20 to 49 years, from two successive nationally representative surveys, we assessed the differential likelihood of hypertension and diabetes, between MC- and HBS- Dalit women. …”
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Socioeconomic risk factors of hypertension and blood pressure among persons aged 15–49 in Nepal: a cross-sectional study by Sushant Joshi, Bishnu Bahadur Thapa

“…Janjatis (adjusted OR (AOR): 1.34, CI: 1.12 to 1.59), Other Terai castes (AOR: 1.38, CI: 1.03 to 1.84), Muslim and other ethnicities (AOR: 1.64, CI: 1.15 to 2.33) and Dalits (AOR: 1.26, CI: 1.00 to 1.58) had higher odds of hypertension. …”
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Prevalence of risky sexual behaviour and its associated factors among youths of Pokhara metropolitan city, Nepal: a cross-sectional study by Aakriti Wagle, Khem B Karki

“…Similarly, in regard to caste, Janajatis were almost six times (AOR=5.56, 95% CI=2.47 to 12.5) and Dalits/Madhesi/others were almost two times more likely to involve in risky sexual behaviour than Brahmin/Chhetri.Conclusion This study shows a significantly higher prevalence of risky sexual behaviour among adolescents, males and Janajatis than their counterparts. …”
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Predictors of health insurance enrolment and wealth-related inequality in Nepal: evidence from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2019 by Umesh Prasad Bhusal, Vishnu Prasad Sapkota

“…Hindus had greater odds of being enroled (adjusted OR 1.82; 95% CI 1.20 to 2.77) compared with non-Hindus. Dalits were less likely to get enroled compared with Brahmin, Chhetri and Madhesi (adjusted OR 0.66; 95% CI 0.47 to 0.94). …”
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Factors associated with miscarriage in Nepal: Evidence from Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys, 2001-2016. by Sharadha Hamal, Yogendra B Gurung, Bidhya Shrestha, Prabin Shrestha, Nanda Lal Sapkota, Vijaya Laxmi Shrestha

“…In relation to caste/ethnicity, Dalits had 13% lesser likelihood (aOR = 0.87, 95% CI [0.74, 1.02]) and Janajatis had 26% lower chances of a miscarriage than Brahmin/Chettri (aOR = 0.74, 95% CI [0.64, 0.85]).…”
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Cross-Disciplinary Rapid Scoping Review of Structural Racial and Caste Discrimination Associated with Population Health Disparities in the 21st Century by Drona P. Rasali, Brendan M. Woodruff, Fatima A. Alzyoud, Daniel Kiel, Katharine T. Schaffzin, William D. Osei, Chandra L. Ford, Shanthi Johnson

“…The results link historical racism/casteism to health disparities occurring in Black and African American, Native American, and other ethnic groups in the US; in Indigenous peoples and other visible minorities in Canada; and in the Dalits of Nepal, a population racialized by caste, grounded on at least four foundational theories explaining structural determinants of health disparities. …”
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