In November and December 2006, the desecration of an Ambedkar statue in Kanpur triggered off violent protests by Dalits in Maharashtra, India. There was...

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Indian Express. 2 December 2006. Archived from the original on 14 December 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2006. "Maharashtra: Dalit anger leaves 4 dead, 60 injured"...

any mention of caste, but picked up momentum after the Dalit-led protests across Maharashtra grew stronger. An investigative feature article by Sabrina...

statues 2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra; a set of protests also in response to the desecration of a statue of Ambedkar. Caste-related violence in India...

was the fourteenth child in an impoverished Maharashtra Dalit family, who studied abroad, returned to India in the 1920s and joined the political movement...

the Dalit Panther movement in Maharashtra as well as Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, an advocate for Dalit rights, have played influential roles in shaping Dalit literature...

People often protest vandalism of Ambedkar statues, with the 2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra being a notable instance. Another such protest led to the...

elimination of the caste system in India, mostly as a reaction to the state action against 2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra. On 2 January 2011, he was arrested...

movement was inspired by the Dalit Panthers of India, a social movement which itself had formed earlier in the 1970s in Maharashtra which itself was inspired...

a Hindu other backward caste, found in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar adjoining areas, who were traditionally involved in salt-digging and salt-making activities...

In 1958, the term "Dalit literature" was used for the first conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha (Maharashtra Dalit Literature Society) in Mumbai...

Jyotirao Phule was a pioneer in opening schools for girls and Marathi Dalit castes. The non-Brahmin Hindu castes of Maharashtra started organizing at the...

Change Movement) was a Dalit and Navayana Buddhist movement to change the name of Marathwada University, in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, to Dr. Babasaheb...

Dalit literature originated in Marathi-speaking areas of Maharashtra. She credits Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, a Mahar himself, for inspiring many Dalit writers...

Kunbi and the Dalit communities were seen in the Khairlanji killings, and the media have reported sporadic instances of violence against Dalits. Other inter-caste...

militancy among Dalits in the state. In midst of the protests, around 30 Dalit rights organisations had combined to form the Una Dalit Atyachar Ladat Samiti...

Congress (I) in Maharashtra long relied on OBCs' backing for its political success. Bharatiya Janata Party has also showcased its Dalit and OBC leaders...

water in a public tank in Mahad (currently in Raigad district), Maharashtra, India. The day (20 March) is observed as Social Empowerment day in India...

Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios is a 2006 book written by Sharmila Rege and published by Zubaan India. This book is a theoretical analysis of Dalit Literature...

of Ambadawe (Mandangad taluka) in Ratnagiri district of modern-day Maharashtra. Ambedkar was born into a Mahar (dalit) caste, who were treated as untouchables...

in Nagpur 10,000 dalits in Uttar Pradesh district convert to Buddhism 100,000 People's Mass Conversion (2007) in Maharashtra Four Dalit youngsters, who...

Although Shiv Sena's primary base always remained in Maharashtra, it tried to expand to a pan-Indian base. In the 1970s, it gradually moved from advocating...

was in 1958, that the term "Dalit literature" was used for the first time, when the first conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha (Maharashtra Dalit...

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ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a Marathi-speaking...

Yadav grew up in the Kasturba Nagar slum, which is located in the Indian central city of Nagpur, Maharashtra. He lived and did business in the slum which...

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...

media related to Bhandari caste. Rege, Sharmila (2006). Writing Caste, Writing Gender: Reading Dalit Women's Testimonies. Zubaan. ISBN 978-8-18901-301-1...