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TopicDalit scholars

Topic: Dalit scholars

‘Educated Dalits’—how these two words swung Bombay HC landmark verdict for 2 JNU scholars

Dalit couple Shiv Shankar Das and Kshipra Kamlesh Uke secure landmark compensation for intellectual property loss under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

In JNU, works of Gail Omvedt and Dalit scholars are relegated to ‘underground’ networks

I joined JNU’s Centre for Historical Studies in 1995, and found that books and archival materials on Dalits and Adivasis were scarce. Keeping up the Brahminical caste status was a primary motive of these studies.

This is why Dalit women are singing Tathagata Buddha songs in UP

The growing popularity of Tathagata Buddha songs is all about the reach of Ambedkar’s conversion ideology in Uttar Pradesh.

‘Not just Right-wing, even liberal academics have biases against Dalit scholars’

Author Kancha Ilaiah talks about how casteism exists across the spectrum; says some people started threatening him after Gauri Lankesh’s murder.

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Trump made it clear that US military isn’t global police with National Defence Strategy 2026

Allies and partners are now pushed not only to align strategically and spend more on their own security, but also to accept the economic and political terms of “America First.”

More states giving out cash transfers. They aren’t substitutes for investments: Economic Survey

Number of states implementing unconditional cash transfers increased fivefold between FY23 and FY26, half of them estimated to be in revenue deficit, report says.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.