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New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI/PRNewswire): Maya, Modi, Azad is significant for understanding not just Dalit but democratic politics in India as it heads into what is likely to be a deeply divisive general election in 2024.

Existing studies on B R Ambedkar largely focus on his substantive religious, sociological, political and constitutional concerns, and not on the concepts he deployed for the purpose or modes of his argumentation. His body of work demonstrates that he formulated a number of concepts to take stock of the social reality that he confronted, and/or reformulated existing concepts by critically engaging with the body of scholarship available to him. With regard to the conception of the political, he a...

How the BJP won over Bengal’s Scheduled Castes The Hindutva party led in 46 of the 84 reserved assembly segments in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. At Shrichandrapur village in the backyard of Santiniketan, the university town known for hosting the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Visva-Bharati, a Hanuman temple was inaugurated on March 11. Chants of “Jai Shri Ram” and religious songs created an atmosphere of devotion. The area is part of the Bolpur assembly constituency that votes in ...

Public culture is a mental and physical space where basic ideas of the self and world view get crystallised. It is the main space to form varied communicative lines. These communicative lines discipline person’s behaviour. Since the Dalit’s ideas about self and consciousness were largely shaped by their everyday experience, Ambedkar thoughtfully evolved the Dalit’s public culture towards conscientising mental and physical space. A number of nodal points in varied communicative lines were ...