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 (...)
Activists claim the BJP government in the state wants to divide Adivasis on religious lines and is targeting NGOs because of their opposition to the acquisition of Adivasi land by corporates.
Nirmal Hriday in Ranchi. Credit: Twitter/IANS
New Delhi: Civil society groups in Jharkhand have (...)
The task of the opposition will not be complete only by forming a political alliance
The likelihood that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will enter into political alliances with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is surely giving nightmares to the Bharatiya Janata Party (...)
The 20 adivasi (indigenous) activists have been slapped with sedition cases for publishing critical posts against the Raghubar Das-led BJP government on Facebook and for allegedly playing a prominent role in the Pathalgadi movement.
New Delhi: The Jharkhand police on July 26 slapped sedition (...)
Dalits and Adivasis are severely under-represented in Indian cricket. Adopting a quota system similar to that of South Africa will help remove structural barriers and ensure more diversity.
In the 86 years since India attained Test status, 290 different men have played test cricket for India. (...)
In ’Ants and Elephants’, Sujatha Gidla misrepresents or ignores legendary Dalit figures who built the communist movement in Andhra, distorts the struggle for Telangana and dehumanises the Dalit experience.
The shrouded lives of ‘untouchables’, also known as Dalits, in the form of life narratives (...)
The Bhim Army is part of the Ambedkarite tradition of politics; it is not necessarily a challenge to Mayawati and may in fact help consolidate the BSP.
Anand Teltumbde is a writer, political analyst and civil rights activist. He is a public intellectual who is almost allergic to identity (...)
Indigenous farmers are at the centre of the massive mobilisation of peasants in Maharashtra
“You see this hut? From here on, it is all our land,” says Kisan Gujar.
We’re in a car, and I’m driving to give Ashok Dhawale some rest. Dusk is falling, and we’re driving out of Kalwan. Also with us is (...)
Fighting the caste system is definitely an inherent part of the Dalit movement, but the anti-caste movement needs to grow beyond Dalits.
Many people confuse the Dalit movement with the anti-caste movement, often seeing them as one and the same thing. They forget that caste is not exclusive to (...)
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