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The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow
Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.
Odisha: Dongria Kondh Tribals Take on Corporate Goliaths to Save Forests
The Forest Conservation Amendment Act 2023 and the Forest Conservation Rules 2022 have opened the floodgates for massive deforestation.
Alarming Odisha arrests, ‘illegal’ detentions ahead of Vedanta bauxite public hearing
More than 80 lawyers, legal academics and researchers have...
Systemic and widespread: Violence against Dalit continues across Indian states
From a remote village in Gujarat to ghastly targeted gender violence in Uttar Pradesh, to what we see as cosmopolitan Kerala, and even Rajasthan, violence against Dalits in various forms continues.
Jharkhand: Attempt to create red scare for ‘brutal crackdown’, increase loot of resources
The civil rights group Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization...
Adivasi Manch Pledges to Fight BJP Govt’s ‘Anti-Tribal’ Policies at National Conference
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The fourth conference of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM) stated that the present government is depriving adivasis of their forest, water, land, education, employment, and even gram sabhas.
MP witnesses rising violence against tribals as BJP youth wing leader is caught beating an elderly tribal
The opposition has condemned the incident, accusing the ruling BJP government of being “anti-tribal”, after the video went viral this week on social media. However, even more videos of tribal being beaten and assault continue to emerge from the state.
Hathras Verdict: Justice not delivered
Examining the Hathras verdict's implications on human rights and equality amidst lingering
CJP moves NCSC against rising anti-Dalit incidents since July, provides detailed reports on 11 incidents
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Marginalised communities live with fear and uncertainty as they face lynching’s, murder, harassment, and public humiliation nationwide.
Madhya Pradesh: Two tribal men assaulted and beaten
The two incidents of violent assault against tribal men occurred last week consecutively in rural Madhya Pradesh. Both incidents involved certain level of humiliation, with one youth assaulted and poured urine on, and another stripped and beaten.
Violence and assault targeting Dalits rock Uttar Pradesh
Two disturbing cases of violence against Dalits surface - one involving a deadly beating over unpaid wages, and another case of rape, extortion, and forced consumption of beef
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