Centre for Research and Development Solidarity
We fought the British thinking that we will be equal in the independent India. There will be land settlement, for instance—but the savarnas (upper castes) and the rich people have controlled (akthiar) the land, including Adivasi (original dwellers) land.
Read moreAny attempt to interrogate caste in India gives cause for concern on several possible grounds. Foremost is a concern pertaining to caste-justified discrimination and caste-based assaults on the dignity and physical well-being of the victims...
Read moreDalit (the ‘downtrodden’) students continue to experience castebased discrimination, humiliation and dehumanization; illegal practices that are being reproduced in the school system in the state of Odisha, India. Based on...
Read moreThis article advances the proposition that theoretical productivity in relation to questions of caste/iesm, Dalits, and Dalit poverty and educational prospects in India would be better served by critical sociological deployments that aim to expose...
Read moreThis research in to untouchability and casteist practices in rural schools in South Odisha is an undertaking of CRDS, Gopalpur (Ganjam district). The research was initiated in 2014 and is being developed in successive phases to eventually include, both...
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1. Learning in Adivasi Social Movements (2006-2009)
2. Research on community forest resources and their use (2013-14)
3. Socio-economic studies (2014-15)
4. Technical Support Unit (TSU) (2016)
5. Untouchability, Casteism and Response/Resistance in Rural Schools (2013-2019)
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