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Castes are not always at war in villages, nor do ex-untouchables face physical violence every day. Caste power also operates through peace and politeness.
Recurring cases of caste violence against Scheduled Castes in rural India bring to the fore the fragile nature of rural peace. As part of (...)
Dalits who converted to Islam and Christianity continue to be outside the fold of affirmative action benefits. This needs to change.
This month marks 70 years from the passing of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, which aimed at ensuring that Dalit communities would be able to (...)
Under the pretext of education, many Adivasis are taught that their culture, customs, language and habits are ’inferior’.
New Delhi: Gondi, one of the most ancient languages of India, is on the verge of becoming extinct. This is despite the language being the mother tongue of millions of people (...)
The Indian state has imprisoned the Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde on trumped-up charges of terrorism and subversion. His activism and writing on caste and class are needed more than ever in the struggle against both casteism and capitalism.
Review of Anand Teltumbde, Republic of Caste: (...)
The migrant labour crisis offers fertile ground for political change but the will to execute it is missing
As the plight and precarity of migrant workers take centrestage, a pertinent question is about its political bearings. The fact that an overwhelming majority of those precariat are (...)
The surge of Hindu nationalism in India can be seen as a revolt of the upper castes against the egalitarian demands of democracy. The Hindutva project is a lifeboat for the upper castes in so far as it promises to restore the Brahminical social order.
The recent upsurge of Hindu nationalism in (...)
While India observed Republic Day, people at various places read out the Preamble to the Constitution and unfurled the National Flag, the adivasi people of Niyamgiri were reminded once again that mining corporations like Vedanta are the real owners of the country.
The tyranny of the Manubadi (...)
A fact-finding team has found that tribals in Khunti and their pathalgadi movement has been dealt with severe repression and torture.
New Delhi: The Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, an overarching network of multiple social movements and organisations, has asked the state government to (...)
When Scheduled Castes weren’t given 33% of agricultural village common land, as required by an old regulation, they decided to fight for it.
“Our struggle is not just about money,” said Paramjit Kaur, standing at the door of her kitchen in Sangrur, Punjab, rolling a dough ball to make chapatis. (...)
While the conflict is generally reduced to just two sides – the government versus the Naxals – Alpa Shah’s book centres a third group: the Adivasis.
At a time when human rights activists are dubbed ‘urban Naxals’ and incarcerated, actual Naxalites remain poorly understood. Many Indians see them as (...)
Activists said almost 10% of the population in three blocks has been charged under several draconian laws, including sedition.
New Delhi: As many as 30,000 people have been charged under the alleged offence of engaging in the peaceful Pathalgadi movement in tribal territories in Jharkhand. (...)
People in the region are still afraid the police will harass or arrest them if they speak out.
Khunti (Jharkhand): A sense of fear prevails in the villages of Jharkhand which witnessed the Pathalgadi movement last year. In several villages in the Torpa, Murhu and Erki blocks that The Wire (...)
When the two national parties are trying to reduce the 2019 elections to secularism vs nationalism, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi is adopting a ‘secularism plus’ approach in politics.
The Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s (VBA) decision to contest the Lok Sabha elections without an alliance with the Congress (...)
While the private sector is comfortable paying for the education of SCs and STs, it is reluctant to employ them.
In 2006, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) set up a committee for ‘affirmative action for SC/ST’ communities – in order to improve the representation of these marginalised sections (...)
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has been accused of failing to brief its team adequately in a case about the constitutionality of the Forest Rights Act.
On February 13, the Supreme Court ordered state governments to evict over 10 lakh (one million) forest-dwelling families whose claims over (...)
A child drinks insecticide to quell hunger. This is part of a pattern, not an isolated incident.
Last week, The Quint reported that an Adivasi child in Ratlam district in northwest Madhya Pradesh had been hospitalised after drinking insecticide in order to quell a desperate hunger. The child (...)
Where the Congress has the chance to be really transformative is in how it addresses the Naxalite conflict. This is Rahul Gandhi’s litmus test to show if he and his party care about India’s adivasis.
After 15 years of repression, misrule and loot of Chhattisgarh’s natural resources, the defeat of (...)
A troll-army took offence to a poster held by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and then bombarded specific accounts with casteist slurs and threats of violence
On Sunday, November 18, Twitter co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey held a roundtable discussion with a group of women journalists, activists and (...)
While the nation is in the #MeToo movement’s grip, Dalit women are not speaking up against their oppressors. This is because all mainstream sectors have only paid lip service to their cause.
All the media time and reams of newsprint documenting the various #MeToo revelations in India will not (...)
The statue, viewed as representative of the practice of caste sanctioned in ’Manusmriti’, has been a major cause of discontent for nearly three decades.
Mumbai: Ten days ago, two Dalit women and a Muslim man, all in their mid-40s and associated with one of the factions of Republic Party of India (...)
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