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Lucknow: Caste hierarchies & contract labour exploitation among sanitation workers
Sanitation accused their supervisor of coercion, wage manipulation and caste-based abuse, alleging that workers are being pressured to surrender a recently approved ₹2,000 wage increase while being denied entitled leave. The allegations reflect the broader vulnerabilities faced by sanitation workers in Uttar Pradesh, which has recorded the highest number of sewer and septic tank deaths in India since 2017
Importance of classifying Scheduled Castes for reservation: Sanjeev Khudshah, Dalit writer
In a conversation with me, Ambedkarite author Sanjeev Khudshah explores the importance of classifying Scheduled Castes for reservation purposes.
Escalating anti-Dalit violence in India: A disturbing surge of brutality and discrimination since July 2024
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From brutal assaults to systemic abuse- a two-month chronicle of Dalit atrocities across India reveals a crisis of justice and equality.
Lack of securing tribal land rights in Andhra ‘exacerbating’ vulnerability to climate change
In the tribal areas of the Eastern Ghats of...
In MP, Three Dalit Youths of a Single Family Are Dead. How Has the Police Responded?
A fact-finding report has pointed out the implicit bias that had characterised police action since the family's very first complaint in 2019 against assault, threats and torture by dominant caste groups.
Caste and Indifference: Two separate incidents of rape against minor Dalit girls in UP and Bihar receive no media coverage, protest or outrage
How can we combat violence against women when media and public outrage fall silent when the victims belong to marginalised communities?
TISS authorities ‘targeting’ Adivasis, Dalits: Eviction notice to PhD scholars
In a scathing letter to the Director, the Dean of Student Affairs, and the Associate Dean of Student Affairs of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, members* of the civil rights group All India Inquilabi Youth and Students Alliance (ALIYSA) have sought immediate withdrawal of the recent eviction notices to PhD scholars to vacate the campus in 24 hours. The letter disputes the claim by the TISS authorities that the scholars have taken beyond 5 years of time in completing their doctoral work.
In a historic verdict, SC allows sub-classification within Scheduled Castes but makes regressive comments on creamy layer
In a landmark ruling, while a 7-judge bench overturns the E.V. Chinnaiah judgment, allowing states to create sub-classification within SCs, four judges venture into the question of creamy layer that was not before the bench at all
Union Minister says no report of manual scavenging in last 5 years
Safai Karmachari Andolan demands that the Prime Minister come out with a White Paper on work done by govt for manual scavengers in last 10 years and seeks special package for liberation and rehabilitation of manual scavengers
India’s ‘tradition’ and ‘culture’ of lynching
Lynchings in India are not isolated incidents that happen ‘out of the blue’ to some people somewhere – and it would be a grave error on our part to presume so.
MP diverted SC/ST welfare funds for cow welfare, atrocities against Dalits reported across country
In Gujarat Dalit youth beaten for posting picture on Instagram wearing a safa and sunglasses, Dalit teen forced to drink cow urine in UP and anti-Dalit slogan raised in JNU
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