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TopicDalit History Month 2021

Topic: Dalit History Month 2021

ThePrint’s Opinion team launched the Dalit History Month series for the first time in 2018 to not only commemorate Babasaeb Ambedkar’s birthday but also to foreground hidden stories, voices and catalysing issues in the community. You can read the articles here. We now bring you the second edition.

A Dalit lead who isn’t honour killing or inter-caste love victim. It takes a Neeraj Ghaywan

Ravikiran Shinde -
Bollywood is now comfortable with portraying drugs, gender parity, crime and sexuality, but still finds Dalit characters too hot to handle.

How Instagram reels is a mirror to modern casteism in India

Anurag Minus Verma -
Instagram Reels feels like you've entered an expensive restaurant where you can be mocked for your clothes, accent, and pronunciation.

Kausalya Baisantri, an early Dalit woman autobiographer, fought a ‘double curse’

Siddhesh Gautam -
Kausalya Baisantri was an educator and activist who reached the voice of Dalit women to then Indian President Giani Zail Singh.

Meet M. Nagloo, India’s first Dalit hotelier who was famous among British, US travellers

Chinnaiah Jangam -
M. Nagloo rose from obscurity to become a prominent figure in late 19th century. His biography, written by his son, is perhaps the first Dalit biography written in English.

New Dalit women autobiographies are opening up private, intimate spaces, rewriting history

K. Kalyani -
From Yashica Dutt to Sumitra Mehrol, autobiographies & memoirs by Dalit-Bahujan women have a unique position in centering their experiences.

Ambedkar said tyranny of majority is no democracy. Indians must read him again

Yogendra Yadav -
Don’t just celebrate Ambedkar’s birthday. Follow the democracy he envisioned for India.

Why Ambedkar changed on separate electorate. His shift was strategic not voluntary

Arvind Kumar -
Ambedkar favoured communal representation but had serious objections to a separate communal electorate being the best way to achieve it.

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India’s real estate will meet the reality of agentic AI

Andy Mukherjee -
New Delhi: The outsourcing industry, India’s largest white-collar employer, is a juggernaut that has all but stopped moving. The dollar revenue at the top...

Keeping CAPF in Bengal for 60 days raises constitutional questions. It’s not an occupying force

History of Indians in the Arab world—port builders, Jat governor, translators, and slaves

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Economy

Adani’s giant copper plant hits technical setbacks in first year

Julian Luk -
The 500,000 tonne-per-year plant produced just 94,000 tonnes of refined copper from April 2025 to February this year.

Defence

Indian drone tech company ideaForge signs MoU with Japanese firm to develop next-gen AI powered drones

Debdutta Chakraborty -
By pairing Indian drone engineering with Japanese semiconductor expertise, the two firms aim to develop more advanced autonomous systems tailored to both defence & commercial use.

National Interest

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

Shekhar Gupta -
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.

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