Ethnicity, Religion and Culture Based Exclusion and Discrimination in Aotearoa/New Zealand PDF Print E-mail

By Martin Fuchs and Antje Linkenbach

This working paper “Religion and Culture Based Exclusion and Discrimination in Aotearoa/ New Zealand” is taken out from the report on Exclusion and Discrimination based on Ethnicity.
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Ethnicity, Religion and Culture based Discrimination: A Study of Malaysia PDF Print E-mail

By S.N. Malakar and Chittaranjan Senapati

This working paper “Ethnicity, Religion and Culture based Discrimination: A Study of Malaysia” has been taken out from our report on Caste Based Discrimination in South Asia.
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Dalits in Business: Self-Employed Scheduled Castes in Northwest India PDF Print E-mail

By Surinder S. Jodhka
This paper Dalits in Business: Self-Employed Scheduled Castes in Northwest India draws insights on the expansion of private capital in India during post-1991 period which also marked important ideological shift.
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Access to Health Care and Patterns of Discrimination: A Study of Dalit Children in Selected villages of Gujarat and Rajasthan PDF Print E-mail

By Sanghmitra S. Acharya
This paper “Access to Health Care and Patterns of Discrimination: A Study of Dalit Children in Selected villages of Gujarat and Rajasthan” looks at the nature and forms of discrimination experienced by Dalit children in accessing health services provided by the primary health centres and private sector providers in the rural areas.
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Comparative Contexts of Discrimination: Caste and Untouchability in South Asia PDF Print E-mail

By Surinder S. Jodhka and Ghanshyam Shah
This working paper “Comparative Contexts of Discrimination: Caste and Untouchability in South Asia” is based on empirical studies carried out in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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Dalits with Disabilities: The Neglected Dimension of Social Exclusion PDF Print E-mail

By Gobinda C. Pal
This working paper “Dalits with Disabilities: The Neglected Dimension of Social Exclusion” studies broader areas of Dalits and Disability in India and explores in-depth consequences of inter-relation between the two.
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Diversity, Discrimination or Difference: Case Study Aotearoa/New Zealand PDF Print E-mail

By Patricia Maringi G. Johnston
This  paper “Diversity, Discrimination or Difference: Case Study Aotearoa/New Zealand” situates discrimination within ideological and historical debates. The author examines how racial discourses and ideologies were constructed to mobilise the belief of difference as inferior.
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Exclusion and Discrimination in Schools: Experiences of Dalit Children PDF Print E-mail

By Geetha B. Nambissan
This paper draws focus to the position of the Dalits in the caste structure which historically led to their exclusion from knowledge and education in traditional Hindu society.
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Events and Announcement

Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) invites expression of interest from distinguished social scientists to prepare a position paper on Caste based discrimination in Bhutan as part of the project on “Caste Based Discrimination in South Asia”.  For more details, contact sobin@dalitstudiesorg.in

Book Reviews

The Dalits in India : Search for a Common Destiny
By Sukhdeo Thorat, SAGE Publications: New Delhi, 2009.
Review by Gowhar Yaqoob

....the book can prove to be resourceful hand-book and significant guide-book for purposes of diverse nature; including advocacy. The structure of the book including tables, figures, widely spread across 14 chapters is more likely compilation of certain individual (micro-level) studies, which has woven a strong pattern, in shape of the discourse this book brings forth.  More....

The No Nonsense Guide to Minority Rights in South Asia
by Rita Manchanda. Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2009.


Review by Sobin George

THE book provides insights into minority questions from the standpoint of ‘non-domination’ and ‘powerlessness’ of communities in six South Asian countries, namely India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. More......

Post-Hindu India A Discourse on Dalit –Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution
By Kancha Ilaiah, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2009

Review by Rinju Rasaily

The author critiques and compares how Hinduism as a religion did not call forth scientific and technological development unlike Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. He states that the merger of creativity, spirituality, science and technology was never allowed in the Hindu caste system. More....