Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print. As one of the major pillars of Indian social structure, the caste system distinguishes Indian culture from all other cultures of the world. Though the Constitution of India assures equality of status and opp…
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 36-52, May 2022. Manual scavenging is a caste-based occupation (Shahid, 2015, Social Change, 45(2), 242–255). It involves the manual removal of human excreta from dry latrines and septic tanks (usin…
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 80-87, May 2022. Due to the scarcity of water, frequent crop failure and low returns from cultivation, agriculture in the state of Maharashtra is in a distressed condition. With a semi-arid topograp…
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 53-66, May 2022. The present study aims to explore the factors of social exclusion which are affecting scheduled castes most. Furthermore, it also presents the socio-economic condition of the schedu…
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print. Govardhan Wankhede, My Life: The Journey of a Dalit Sociologist. Aakar Books India Publication, 2020, 191 pp., ₹595 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-9350026854.
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print. Into an Unborn Age: A Review of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik, The Untouchable & Other Poems. Trans. by Jaydeep Sarangi and Anurima Chanda. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2020, pp. 91, ₹295 (paperback). ISBN: 978-93-…
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print. Drawing from empirical research, the article highlights the landlessness of the Dalits in eastern Uttar Pradesh vis-à-vis the social construction of poverty and the question of identity based on caste. It an…
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print. The history of religious conversions has highlighted two aspects. One is the transformation in one’s spiritual and transcendental realm and the other is the social and the political domain that encompasses a…