Dalit Freedom Fighters

Dalit Freedom Fighters
Author: Mohanadāsa Naimiśarāya
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010
Genre: Dalits
ISBN: 9788121210201

Emancipation of Dalits and Freedom Struggle

Emancipation of Dalits and Freedom Struggle
Author: Himansu Charan Sadangi
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2008
Genre: Buddhism
ISBN: 9788182054813

The book analyses political and social transition at the juncture of Indian Independence in 1947 from the British to Indians, with a view of Dalits, who got initial emancipation under the British rule from Hindu Varna system and Brahmanical Tyranny. The book highlights the issues of untouchability, Mahar Movement, Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Phule and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

Untouchable Freedom

Untouchable Freedom
Author: Vijay Prashad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume is on the Balmikis of Delhi, who work as sanitation workers and keep the city clean. They live in poverty and face sustained discrimination. In response the Balmikis fight to liberate themselves. Untouchable Freedom is the first comprehensive study of this community and traces their struggles from the 1860s to the present, as they have moved from agricultural labor to urban work.

DALIT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

DALIT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Author: Thummapudi Bharathi
Publisher: MJP Publisher
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

This book is a collection of research articles presented at different seminars/conferences. Some references therefore appear more than once as they claim contextual relevance. Hence they are retained. Some of the papers have been published in some journals and in edited books and the modified version is included in this volume. I thank the editors for permitting me to include them in this collection. Dalit has become a burning issue from the beginning of the 20th century, as its existence was mainly invisible so far. Its invisibility is due to the society’s refusal to admit it as social evil and moreover giving credibility for its divine origin. Thanks to the advancement of science and technology that made the people of the world to come closer. Philosophers introduced the ideas of liberty and equality that reached all the corners of the world. People have realized that freedom is above everything; Hence, they have decided to fight to break their chains of slavery/untouchability. The fight for their independence, individuality, identity, self-respect, economic independence is the story of Dalits, registered in this volume. It will not be fascinating or interesting but it helps the readers and researchers to understand the problem and become one with it, in the process of finding some reasonable and possible answers.

Dalits and the Democratic Revolution

Dalits and the Democratic Revolution
Author: Gail Omvedt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1994
Genre: Dalits
ISBN: 9788170363682

"This important volume traces the history of the Dalit movement form its origins to the death of its most famous leader, B.R. Ambedkar, in 1956. Focusing on three states - Andhra, Maharashtra, and Karnataka - the author skillfully analyzes the ideology and organization of the movement and its interaction both with the freedom struggle, particularly with Gandhi and Gandhism, and the class struggles of the workers and peasants, and their dominant idealogy - Marxism."--Pub. desc.

The Making of the Dalit Public in North India

The Making of the Dalit Public in North India
Author: Badri Narayan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2011-05-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199088454

This book is a detailed commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation, and mobilization among the Dalits in northern India. Based on extensive fieldwork at the village level in eastern Uttar Pradesh, it deals with Dalit social and political history in the state from 1950 to the present. Using alternative sources—stories and narratives alive in the oral tradition and 'collective memory' of the oppressed and marginalized Dalits—Narayan documents various social upheavals that have taken place in post-Independence India. He also examines the process of politicization of Dalit communities through their internal social struggles and movements, and their emergence as a 'political public' in the State-oriented democratic political setting of contemporary India. How has the ongoing process of politicization of the Dalits developed their politics? How far does it appear as an alternative? To what extent is it similar to the politics played out by dominant parties? Does it imitate or seek break away from the methods of the upper castes? This book seeks to answer these important questions as it maps the changing nature of contemporary Indian politics. In doing so, it unfolds the multiple, suppressed, layers of Dalit consciousness in vibrant ethnographic detail, hitherto overlooked by mainstream discourse.