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Historian P. Sanal Mohan says the Gandhian nationalist discourse foregrounded the issue of untouchability. He says he hasn’t come across anyone who claimed to be a nationalist leader of the 20th century talking about slavery in their writings on caste in Kerala

By allying with Chandrashekhar Azad’s party, the Congress may be able to recover some lost ground in Uttar Pradesh. But would Azad agree to an alliance with the Congress? A credible Bahujan agenda may persuade him, writes Dharavath Surender Naik

Director Shailesh Narwade’s unique film ‘Jayanti’ is inching towards completion. The investors are all Dalitbahujans, so are most of the actors and the team behind the scenes. But more funds are needed, for which he has turned to crowdfunding

Going against its core values, the Adivasi community is behaving cruelly with its women who marry non-Adivasis. Who or what is behind this trend and why is this happening? Nitisha Xalxo analyses

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Even the Supreme Court’s 2016 order that the Odisha government reinvestigate the cases related to the 2008 pogrom and pay damages has had little effect on the ground, writes Goldy M. George

Deferring to the mounting national and international pressure by indigenous leaders and Indian anthropologists, IUAES has withdrawn the co-hosting rights of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences to the World Anthropology Congress 2023. However, the larger issue of KISS as a factory school funded by mining corporates remains, writes Goldy M. George

If institutions like IISER have only a handful of Dalitbahujans, it is because they are not following the reservation norms. Information obtained through an RTI application underlines this point, says Nawal Kishore Kumar

On the 118th anniversary of the first order issued by a government in India to implement reservations in state services, we republish a letter the issuer of that order, Shahu of Kolhapur, wrote to Lord Sydenham, former governor of the Bombay Presidency, explaining why caste-based reservations were an absolute necessity

Why is the BJP bent on creating political instability in Rajasthan? Is it for ideological reasons? Is the party rankled by the new sociopolitical equations emerging in the state because of a string of policy decisions taken by the Gehlot government? Bhanwar Meghwanshi analyses the recent developments