Jai Shankar Prasad: 16 books

Jaishankar Prasad (1889-1937) attended formal school till class eight, because of financial constraints. He drew on his own study of Indian scriptures, philosophy, history, literature, and culture to create works which established him as a giant of Hindi Literature in his short life of 48 years....

कविवर जयशंकर प्रसाद का काव्य साहित्य प्रारम्भिक रचनाओं से कामायनी के शिखर तक अपने समय की साहित्यिक उपलब्धि रहा है...

कामायनी हिंदी भाषा का एक महाकाव्य है। इसके रचयिता जयशंकर प्रसाद हैं। यह आधुनिक छायावादी युग का सर्वोत्तम और प्रतिनिधि...

Sixty-eight years after India’s independence, the Dalit community continues to be oppressed. Their life conditions are abysmal, they are exploited, denied basic human rights and access to economic and natural resources, and continue in demeaning occupations such as manual scavenging. Dalit community...

Gender is now considered not a biological but a social construct. Women have been oppressed, suppressed, marginalized or rather colonized by men since ages. Violence against women should be viewed as a human right violation and a crime, detrimental to the development of women and the society. Human...

Over one-sixth of India’s population, some 170 million people, live a precarious existence, shunned by much of Indian society because of their rank as -untouchables- or Dalits literally meaning -broken- people-at the bottom of India’s caste system. Dalits are discriminated against, denied access...

Dalit women are mostly deprived, socially excluded, less literate, absentee of property rights, and less empowerment socially and economically. They are ignorance about women entrepreneurship. They are poverty stricken having minimum access of maintaining standard of living. Till some years ago, many...

Historically it has been very hard to change the structure of caste politics in India. Contemporary India, however, has seen the influence of caste start to decline. This is partly due to the spread of education to all castes which has had a democratising effect on the political system. However, this...

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...