This book explores the problems of how caste and gender issues are related to the education and empowerment of rural Dalit women in India. The key focus is on t

Women and the Law.

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century

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India’s economic growth has brought opportunities for many but to what extent has it benefitted its ethnically-shaped underclass: the Dalits? Have Dalits fare