Jai: 80 books

Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as untouchable. The highest population of this class of people have been recorded in India. Due to their nature of work, they have been, on many occasions, deprived of their basic necessities and rights. Although, in modern times,...

In India, the Dalits constitute over 16.6 per cent with little less than half being women, which means that 97.9 million Dalit women face multiple forms of discrimination in this country alone. Violence against Dalit women reinforces caste norms wherein they are seen as available for all forms of...

The plight of the Dalits in India in all areas of life - economic, social, spiritual and economic has been pathetic throughout their history and continues as such even today, albeit a little alleviated. The major empowerment of the Dalits, however, started occurring after the arrival of the colonialists,...

The Dalit Buddhist movement (dubbed as Navayana by certain Ambedkerites) is a 19th and 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India. It received its most substantial impetus from B. R. Ambedkar’s call for the conversion of Dalits to Buddhism, in 1956, to escape a caste-based society that considered...

The economic reforms begun in India in 1991 were couched in the language of ‘modernisation’, yet they have done little to challenge the caste and gender discrimination faced by Dalit women - in some ways their situation is worse. The popular perception of globalisation is rooted in its image of...

Dalits represent a community of 170 million in India, constituting 17% of the population. One out of every six Indians is Dalit, yet due to their caste identity Dalits regularly face discrimination and violence which prevent them from enjoying the basic human rights and dignity promised to all citizens...

The last quarter of the Twentieth Century reflected tremendous changes in the Indian Political System and represented political assertions by new social forces. Dalit literature, or literature about the Dalits, an oppressed Indian caste under the Indian caste system, forms an important and distinct...

In an event well beyond the imagination of the average mind, a jobless youth turns out to be the only one who can save the day for a film star of yore. When Joe DCosta offers superstar Vicky Bhargav a ride to a film shoot on his dilapidated scooter, little does he imagine this rendezvous can direct...

Six years ago, I was diagnosed with class IV Aggressive Prostate cancer that spread to my bones. This book details the alternative healing method using baking soda and molasses when doctors said I only had a few months to less than two years to live. "I finally opened the report to these words: “NO...

The Congress government under Digvijay Singh embarked upon a programme of land reform in the state beginning in 1998, consisting of distribution of a portion of the government-owned charnoi (common grazing) land to dalits and tribals, restoration of tribal lands, removal of encroachments and ensuring...