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  2. Dalit literature - Wikipedia

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    These narratives emphasize the intersection of caste, class, and gender in the context of social exclusion. Prominent Dalit women authors, have brought attention to the struggles of their communities, contributing to the development of Dalit feminism and providing a foundation for understanding the complexities of caste, class, and gender in ...

  3. Caste system in India - Wikipedia

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    Caste or no caste, creed or no creed, any man, or class, or caste, or nation, or institution that bars the power of free thought and bars action of an individual is devilish, and must go down. Liberty of thought and action, asserted Vivekananda, is the only condition of life, of growth and of well-being. [306]

  4. Writing Caste Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's ...

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    This assertion further serves to counter the historical common sense that has homogenized the experience of the nationalist movement on the basis of select regional examples (notably Bengal and Punjab) of upper-caste, middle-class women…..Her re-renderings, her attention to the specific experience of Dalit oppression, and her striving to ...

  5. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

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    But, the caste is a "parcelling" of an already homogeneous unit, and the explanation of the genesis of caste is the explanation of this process of parcelling. [ 4 ] Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [ 5 ] John Nesfield , H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the ...

  6. Ants Among Elephants - Wikipedia

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    Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India is a book by Sujatha Gidla on how India's untouchables struggle to overcome poverty and social ostracism due to the rigid caste system. The book deals with the humiliation and caste-based discrimination which Dalits face in India.

  7. File:The history of caste in India.pdf - Wikipedia

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    This file is in PDF format. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems for document exchange.PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

  8. M. N. Srinivas - Wikipedia

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    Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (16 November 1916 – 30 November 1999) [1] was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. [2] He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'.

  9. Category:Books about the caste system in India - Wikipedia

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