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Dalits and Discourses of Anti-Caste Movements in Kerala, India 印度喀拉拉邦贱民与反种姓运动的话语

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.684

K.S. Madhavan, Rajesh Komath

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Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market: Employment Discrimination and its Impact on Poverty’ 印度劳动力市场中的排位种姓:就业歧视及其对贫困的影响

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.704

Tauqueer Ali Sabri

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“Our Poverty has No Shame; the Stomach has No Shame, so We Migrate Seasonally”: Women Sugarcane Cutters from Maharashtra, India “我们的贫穷并不可耻;胃没有羞耻，所以我们季节性迁移”:来自印度马哈拉施特拉邦的甘蔗切割女工

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.604

Saroj Shinde

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Periyar: Forging a Gendered Utopia 佩里亚:打造一个性别化的乌托邦

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.686

Shailaja Menon

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Socio-spatially Segregated Experience of Urban Dalits and their Anti-caste Imagination: A Study of the Balmiki Community in Delhi, India 城市达利特人的社会空间隔离体验及其反种姓想象——对印度德里Balmiki社区的研究

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.687

Maya Suzuki

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The Caste of Campus Habitus: Caste and Gender Encounters of the First-generation Dalit Women Students in Indian Universities 校园习惯的种姓:印度大学第一代达利特女学生的种姓与性别遭遇

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.682

Anusha Renukuntla, Ashok Kumar Mocherla

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When Fists Write (of) the Past: Conceptualising Dalit Historiography through the Cultural Productions of Dravida Varga Aikya Munnani 当拳头写(关于)过去:通过德拉维达·瓦尔加·艾伽·穆纳尼的文化作品概念化达利特史学

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.620

Sephora Jose

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Imagining an Anti-Caste Utopia Through Food: Dalit Student Politics in Hyderabad, India 通过食物想象一个反种姓的乌托邦:印度海得拉巴的达利特学生政治

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.683

Kristina Garalyte

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Teaching Dalit Bahujan Utopias: Notes from the Classroom 教授达利特人的乌托邦:课堂笔记

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.678

N. Sukumar

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Revisiting Inequality and Caste in State and Social Laws: Perspectives of Manu, Phule and Ambedkar 重新审视国家和社会法律中的不平等和种姓:马努、普勒和安贝德卡尔的视角

Caste (Waltham, Mass.) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v4i2.502

Akanksha Sanil

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