Academic Publications

Centre for Research and Development Solidarity

Learning in Adivasi Social Movements

Subaltern Social Movement Learning and the Decolonization of Space in India.

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. Today, they are at the center of wealth and rajnithi (politics). It is going to be a stupendous task to try and remove them (stated in the dominant Oriya language...

Indigenous Knowledge Learning Pacific

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Gender Caste Human Rights Education

Any 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 of...

Gender-caste-cultural politics

This 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...

Pushing back in casteism in context of caste humiliation.

Dalit (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...

Caste Practices Monograph

This 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..,