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Swati Narayan’s book is densely researched, peppered with astonishing facts and figures, and is written with generosity of spirit for the marginalised.

A memoir that spotlights the lives of tawaifs and dancing girls in 1980s India and a volume on the continuing vitality of the ancient Indian perfume trade and the skilled craftsmen at the centre of it

The neo-Buddhists of Tamil Nadu over the years have also devised ceremonies to observe important life events with the help of monks from Sri Lanka.

Host Dinyar Patel in conversation with Ashok Gopal, author of the anti-caste icon’s English language biography ‘A Part Apart’.

The book ‘A Part Apart’ by Ashok Gopal was launched in Chennai on the last day of Dalit History Month, April 30.

The Samaj Samata Sangh became active around the middle of 1928 with the launch of its periodical, a fortnightly tabloid with eight pages per issue

Get your weekend started with these top 5 stories from The Indian Express: CBI summons Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in excise policy case; Yediyurappa speaks about hijab, halal issues; and more

Ambedkar was seeking a radical reconfiguration of the Hindu religion and society, which could only come through the abolition of caste. He believed that neither Savarkar nor the Hindu Mahasabha did enough on that count

Without a collective defence of social justice politics by a Dalit-Bahujan intellectual class, it is easy for counter-revolutionaries to retain their cultural hegemony and class domination.

A magisterial new biography of BR Ambedkar throws light on his accommodative working style.