• Thumbnail for Dalit
    Dalit (English: /ˈdælɪt/ from Sanskrit: दलित, romanized: dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao...
    144 KB (14,644 words) - 14:29, 10 October 2024
  • Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community, who have faced caste-based...
    62 KB (6,118 words) - 10:02, 8 August 2024
  • The dalit is a type of short Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with eight syllables each. There is a controversy regarding its origin. One school...
    1 KB (107 words) - 04:49, 2 April 2023
  • Following is a list of notable Dalit people organised by profession, field, or focus. B.R. Ambedkar, economist and politician Meghnad Saha, astrophysicist...
    22 KB (1,735 words) - 00:06, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi
    Party; abbr. VCK), formerly known as the Dalit Panthers of India or the Dalit Panthers Iyyakkam (transl. Dalit Panthers Movement; abbr. DPI), is an Indian...
    24 KB (1,519 words) - 05:20, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalit League
    Dalit League is also known as Indian Union Dalit League (IUDL) Indian Political Party and Caste wing of the Indian Union Muslim League in Kerala, India...
    5 KB (191 words) - 19:56, 11 July 2024
  • caste violence also known as the Mirchpur Dalit killings was an incident of violence against the Balmiki Dalits by upper caste Jat villagers in the village...
    16 KB (1,643 words) - 03:14, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalit theology
    Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in the Indian subcontinent in the 1980s. It shares a number of themes...
    11 KB (1,283 words) - 07:21, 4 June 2024
  • The Dalit Panthers is a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja...
    18 KB (2,116 words) - 17:08, 21 May 2024
  • Koduram Dalit (5 March 1910 - 28 September 1967) was an Indian poet in Hindi and Chhattisgarhi languages. Ha Pradesh. ukhaay are two of his popular poem...
    3 KB (142 words) - 16:15, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Caste-related violence in India
    com/article/opinion/columns/maharashtra-khairlanji-dalit-rape-murder-una-vemula-caste-system-discrimination-3055056/ "Dalit blood on village square". Frontline. Retrieved...
    65 KB (2,384 words) - 06:39, 30 September 2024
  • The term Dalit Christian or Christian Dalit is used to describe those who have converted to Christianity from other forms of religion in the Indian subcontinent...
    26 KB (3,151 words) - 19:19, 12 June 2024
  • Pichhda, Dalit, and Muslim (PDM) is a political alliance forged between the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi)...
    5 KB (304 words) - 10:55, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
    sometimes referred to as Dalit, meaning "broken" or "dispersed" for the untouchables. The term having been popularised by the Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar...
    52 KB (4,118 words) - 17:45, 4 October 2024
  • Dalit Muslim is used to refer to Muslims in the Dalit group. Untouchables, also called Dalits, who have converted to Islam. In theory, converting to Islam...
    4 KB (359 words) - 15:06, 16 August 2024
  • Dalit music or Bahujan music is music created, produced, or inspired by Bahujans and Dalits, people often discriminated against on the basis of caste...
    10 KB (750 words) - 00:36, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalits in Bihar
    Dalits in Bihar are a social group composed of many Scheduled Castes, placed at the bottom of the "caste-based social order". The Dalits also include some...
    113 KB (15,653 words) - 02:35, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalit feminism
    Dalit feminism is a feminist perspective that includes questioning caste and gender roles among the Dalit population and within feminism and the larger...
    26 KB (2,920 words) - 22:13, 8 March 2024
  • Dalit Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (Dalit Popular Progressive Federation), political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The party works for the rights...
    721 bytes (71 words) - 15:49, 15 June 2024
  • Dalit Ezhilmalai (24 June 1945 – 6 May 2020) was an Indian union minister. He was a leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), and was Union Minister...
    4 KB (310 words) - 09:20, 21 July 2024
  • Dalit Kisan Dal (Dalit Peasants Party), is a political party in Punjab, India. The party was formed as a splinter group from Lok Bhalai Party 2001, when...
    923 bytes (77 words) - 19:00, 18 April 2021
  • The Kerala Dalit Federation (KDF), is a political party in the Indian state of Kerala. KDF's President is Mr. P. Ramabhadran. The women's wing of KDF...
    476 bytes (45 words) - 20:50, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalit Buddhist movement
    The Dalit Buddhist movement (also known as the Neo-Buddhist movement, Buddhist movement For Dalits, Ambedkarite Buddhist movement and Modern Buddhist movement)...
    51 KB (6,046 words) - 16:30, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for N. K. Jose
    studies in Dalit and Christian history in Kerala. Author of over 140 history and social history books, he was given the title Dalit Bandhu by Dalit organizations...
    17 KB (1,561 words) - 04:36, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chamar
    Chamar (category Dalit communities)
    historically agriculturists. The term chamar is used as a pejorative word for dalits in general. It has been described as a casteist slur by the Supreme Court...
    42 KB (4,135 words) - 07:24, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden
    The Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden (National Dalit Inspiration Place and Green Garden) is a memorial in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It...
    8 KB (627 words) - 22:24, 25 April 2024
  • Dalit studies is a new field of research in India which looks at the problem of marginalised groups, namely Dalits, tribals, religious minorities, women...
    6 KB (678 words) - 17:51, 29 November 2023
  • were felled, highways blocked and damaged and more than 1400 houses of the Dalit community burned down. The police under the M G Ramchandran (MGR) led AIADMK...
    10 KB (866 words) - 16:53, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jignesh Mevani
    Jignesh Mevani (category Dalit activists)
    of the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM). Jignesh Mevani was born on 11 December 1980 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to a family of Dalits from the village...
    72 KB (8,084 words) - 10:42, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalit History Month
    Dalit History Month is an annual observance as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the Dalits or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled...
    13 KB (927 words) - 03:37, 5 October 2024