gulfnews.com, March 31, 2013 By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent New Delhi: Hyderabad-based Kancha Ilaiah is a dalit (low caste) activist and political scientist. What makes him stand out from other dalit leaders and politicians is that he emphasises the importance of English education for the backward classes, rather than supporting the reservation of seats in institutions. […]
Thursday, March 28th, 2013 When 500 people showed up at the annual Community March Against Racism in Vancouver, a small contingent of South Asians carrying the banner, “We are all Untouchables!’’ joined the crowd. The members of the group wanted to tell the world how the caste based oppression also continues in India, the world’s […]
Mar 27, 2013 Hyderabad, Pakistan — Participants of a moot on �upcoming elections and representation of scheduled castes in the assemblies� have demanded of the political parties to nominate at least one representative of scheduled castes on reserved seats for minorities and allot at least one seat to the representatives on the general seats to […]
Lucknow, Novermber, 1, 2010 : The pattern of land distribution has rendered rural landscape of UP disfavourable for farming. The precursor for this is the fragmentation of cultivable land into a large number of `small landholdings’. The process set under the demographic pressure, has caused marginalisation of a vast majority of farmers and posed a severe […]
Caste-based discrimination maybe abolished by law in India but it remains a major cause why backward classes, especially the Dalits, remain confined to menial tasks like manual scavenging and removal of dead animals, a latest report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on discrimination in the job sector has said. Affirmative action has been able […]
