On the occasion of the 194th birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule, let’s look at her contributions to women's education and ...

Kummara or Kulala, Salivahana which is categorized in Group D of BC list sought addition of synonym “Prajapati”, Rajaka ...

A Dalit woman from the Mali community, Savitribai was born on January 3, 1831, in Maharashtra's Naigaon village. Married off at the age of 10, her husband Jyotirao Phule is said to have educated her a ...

The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) has condemned the arrest and alleged physical and mental harassment of 13 ...

He reinterprets the historically servile Shudras as the productive communities and civilisational builders. Often termed an ‘internal matter’, caste inequalities within the rubric of Hinduism ...

In Aranyaka texts, dated to 700 BC, there are ritual competitions in Mahavrata rituals between Aryas and Shudras, indicating Shudras were seen as outsiders. However, most curiously, in the 10th ...

The living shudras are also a huge repository of their history. India’s science exists in these unwritten furrows and in the deep wells of the wealth of labour. This nation’s future has to be ...

Leaders like R Ashoka, Ashwath Narayan, Yatnal, and I, along with G Parameshwara, HK Patil, and KH Muniyappa, are all Shudras. Historically, people like us have faced discrimination simply because ...

An excerpt from Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s essay ‘Shudras and Democratic India’, part of the volume ‘The Shudras: Vision for a New Path’.