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  • BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal (a critic of Karnataka CM B S Yediyurappa) with members the Panchamasali (Lingayat) community during a rally demanding for the inclusion of Lingayat...

    PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak

  • Members of the Panchamasali (Lingayat) community during a rally demanding for the inclusion of Lingayat community in the 2A reservation category, in Bengaluru.

    PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak

  • People, belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward classes stand in queue to claim their rights at a certification camp by the backward classes welfare depart...

    AP Photo/Bikas Das

  • People, belonging to scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward classes stand in queue to claim their rights at a certification camp by the backward classes welfare depart...

    AP Photo/Bikas Das

  • Rajak community members stage 'Jal Satyagraha' agitation in Narmada River demanding Scheduled Caste Status for them, in Jabalpur.

    PTI Photo

  • Left parties activist stage a protest the suicide of post-graduate woman medical student Payal Tadvi, in Mumbai.

    PTI Photo/Shashank Parade

  • DPCC President Sheila Dikshit participates in Valmiki Mahapanchayat organised by Valmiki Samaj representatives over their demands at Mavlankar Hall, in New Delhi.

    PTI Photo/Arun Sharma

  • Kalita Janagosthi Sanmilan activists raise slogans during a protest demanding Schedule Tribe (ST) status at Six Mile, in Guwahati.

    PTI Photo

  • Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad after being released from Saharanpur Jail, in Saharanpur. Azad was arrested from Himachal Pradesh's Dalhousie in June last year in connection wi...

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  • Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad being released from Saharanpur Jail, in Saharanpur. Azad was arrested from Himachal Pradesh's Dalhousie in June last year in connection with the...

    PTI Photo

  • Several upper caste organisation activists raise slogans and burn tyres during 'Bharat Bandh' protest called over SC/ST Amendment Act, in Varanasi.

    PTI Photo

  • Akhil Bhartiya Swarn Sena activists protest outside state BJP office during their ‘Bharat Bandh’ against SC/ST Amendment Bill, in Patna.

    PTI Photo

  • Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram (L) and MSME minister Giriraj Singh (R) during National SC-ST Hub State Conclave-cum-Exhibition in Bhubanes...

    PTI Photo
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    Khasi women and girls at a market in Shillong

    Photograph by Getty Images

  • A delegation of OBC MPs and leaders calls on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after the passage of OBC bill, in New Delhi.

    PIB photo via PTI
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    O.P. Rajbhar (left) had threatened to ­boycott a Rajya Sabha poll before he got to meet Amit Shah

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    Once Lucky

    (From left) Anupriya Patel, Keshav Maurya and CM Yogi in Lucknow

    Photograph by Naeem Ansari

  • Members from Jharkhand Kurmi Vikash Morcha (OBC) raise slogans demanding for reservation during Jharkhand Bandh torchlight procession in Ranchi.

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  • DMK leader M K Stalin, MDMK Chief Vaiko, VCK Leader Thol Thirumavalavan at a demonstration against dilution of certain provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Preventi...

    PTI Photo

  • BJP National President Amit Shah addresses OBC Convention in Kaginele, Karnataka.

    PTI Photo
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    In seventh grade, Maya Pramod was banished to the back benches because of caste. She tells a very personal story here—of her journey from virtual ostracisation to an international award at Brandeis University.
    Apr 15, 2021
    | Maya Pramod
  • The Soul-Sapping Climb From Below
    Even in an area of industrialisation, a social inertia-like force pulls Dalits down. The vicissitudes of life often proved to be their downfall.
    Apr 15, 2021
    | Judith Heyer
  • They Lit The Torch, Caste Aside Darkness
    Meet the Fab Fifty—the trailblazers who have given voice and identity to millions of Dalits in a country rife with caste prejudice and discrimination
    Apr 15, 2021
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  • Dalit Time
    Despite caste society’s attempts to wrench Dalits away from living the Dalit life, they have outshined the crowd wherever they found a foot to stand
    Apr 15, 2021
    | Suraj Yengde
  • Our Dalit, Every Inch A Hero
    Almost always cast in aspects of pathos and abjectness, the Dalit also struggles against a representational trap. Here’s why we decided to depart from the norm and choose celebration.
    Apr 15, 2021
    | Ruben Banerjee
  • Death By Excrement
    Why has Tamil Nadu overtaken even UP in sewer deaths? What makes for its conspiracy of silence?
    Feb 24, 2021
    | Pragya Akhilesh Bobby Kunhu
  • Evidence Of Absence
    Human rights? Gender, especially when overlaid with caste, shows us that half the world is in permanent shadow.
    Dec 30, 2020
    | Cynthia Stephen
  • Mixed Notes From The Main Underground
    In 1995, when Mayawati first became CM, the political epoch truly turned. Identity politics was now the norm. The BJP prospered by another version of it, but it was the caste-led parties that initiated the debate on the secular side. Here, one of India’s most eminent political theorists examines the curious trajectory of Dalit-led parties like that of Mayawati.
    Dec 03, 2020
    | Gopal Guru
  • Middle Name Confidence
    Muslims see in Asaduddin Owaisi a leader who can fight the BJP on their own terms. Some of that goes back to a historical fact that shadows the AIMIM faintly: its old umbilical links with the Razakars
    Nov 20, 2020
    | Ashis Nandy
  • Op In No Position
    It’s advantage BJP in UP as rivals Congress, SP and BSP struggle to shrug off their inertia
    Oct 15, 2020
    | Puneet Nicholas Yadav
  • Interjections, Intersections...
    What is anti-caste intersectional feminism? That’s where the overlapping shadows produce a deeper grey of pain—and a ­knowledge more generous.
    Oct 08, 2020
    | Swati Kamble
  • Media’s Conspiracy Of Silence
    The Indian media has always looked at Dalit issues through an opaque prism -- an unstated, but always-present savarna filter. And that's just one part of the problem.
    Oct 08, 2020
    | Jeyarani
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