There are many definitions of history. But for me, as an artist, dreamer, and an unapologetic Ambedkarite, history has often been a crime scene — a place of distortion, manipulation, and theft. What ...

During the month of April, millions of Ambedkarites and caste-abolition allies celebrate Dalit History Month. Launched in 2015 by a collective of Dalit feminists, including Thenmozhi Soundararajan and ...

VICTORIA (IANS) – In a historic move, the New Democratic Party (NDP) government in Canada’s British Columbia province has recognized Apr. as the Dalit History Month. Responding to an application moved ...

New Delhi: A verdict awaited at the India International Centre on 24 April as academicians Yagati Chinna Rao and Raj Sekhar Basu placed the volume, Identity, Conflict, and Counter-narratives: Dalit ...

Since April 1, Instagram almost feels like a research journal of Dalit history. Dalit/Ambedkarite and Bahujan artists have been posting their own anti-caste work, as well as that of their peers. All ...

A handful of media enterprises have worked hard to keep the Dalit diasporic community informed of their roots and responsibilities ...

As April is both Dalit History Month and Poetry Month, we bring you a fantastic spotlight of a brand new exhibition that just opened up right here in Oakland called Dalit Dreamlands. Anika Nawar Ullah ...

MUMBAI, June 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Vijay Surwade may have worked as a bank manager by day – but for five decades he spent his evenings building one of the world's biggest archives ...

I am a historian of South Asia with particular interests in colonial and postcolonial India, racism and social exclusion, subaltern histories, and histories of democracy. My research focuses on Dalits ...

In the fall of 2015, a group of Dalit survivors and activists from India began marching across 16 cities in North America—including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle—to “break the silence” on caste ...