Two years after he launched the Independent Labour Party, Ambedkar addressed a conference of Dalit workers employed by the railways in Manmad in which he identified Brahmanism and capitalism as the enemies of the Indian...
Kedar Prasad Meena’s research concluded that Hul was the response of a people yearning for freedom and self-respect to their exploitation by moneylenders, the loot of their land and sexual exploitation of their women by...
Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s vision of democracy transcended the simplistic notion of majority rule. He critiqued majoritarian democracy as a system that risked perpetuating the tyranny of dominant groups over marginalized communities, writes Sudhir Hilsayan
Raidas’ radical thinking and works didn’t get wider national and international acceptance. In fact, his modern vision wasn’t even accorded the place it deserved in history. This has to do with the prevalent brahmanical-feudal thinking...