DALIT VOICE
September, 2026
Dalit Capitalism or Managed Inclusion? Neoliberalism, the Right Wing and Dalit Entrepreneurship
Building autonomous Dalit institutions does not absolve the state of its responsibility to safeguard rights and provide social security. Micro-loans alone cannot produce emancipation if they merely manage poverty without changing the conditions under which Dalits participate in the market…
DALIT VOICE
September, 2026
The Right Not to Sing
The present controversy asks a larger question about the limits of state power over national rituals. A person may have a religious objection to the text, reject the use of a national symbol altogether, or simply choose not to participate. If that refusal does not prevent anyone else from singing, what is the state entitled to demand from the person who refuses? Even as the space for conscientious objection shrinks in the shadow of ultranationalism, we…
DALIT VOICE
September, 2026
Changing Fans Won’t Stop Casteism: Institutional Murder of Sahil Wakode at IIT Bombay
There is a persistent, naive belief in India that premier engineering institutes are pristine spaces of pure meritocracy, immune to the social hierarchies of the world outside. The institutional murder of 22-year-old Sahil Ravindra Wakode at IIT Bombay violently shatters this myth.
DALIT VOICE
September, 2026
What a State Is Made to Hold: The Unfinished Case for Reservation in the Private Sector
Reservation was not the original ask. It is what remained after the original mandate was made impossible by someone else’s leverage and the Hindu moral bankruptcy behind it. The instrument defended for ninety years since it has itself been a settlement, arriving at under duress, from a wider claim.
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Scheduled Caste Status Must Be Applied Throughout
The Brahminical fear is that if the SC/ST reservations are extended to the converts not only the floodgates of conversion will be wide open but more than that the converted Dalits will join hands with the non-converted Dalits and together they will hammer the micro-minority Aryan oppressors, and their empire built on bluffs and blackmail will simply collapse
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The Political Legacy of EVR Periyar
Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy is a leader of international repute and is hailed as a great thinker, reformer, revolutionary and humanist. The United Nations itself recognised this during his lifetime. So any discussion on his sterling qualities and services to the oppressed people, victims of Brahminism, is ridiculous. Some Dalits under Brahminical influence have lately started branding Periyar as anti-Dalit.
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The Political Legacy of EVR Periyar
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Why India Has No Second Ambedkar
Archival Note Published in Dalit Voice (Vol. 1, Issue No. 17, 16 June 1982), this essay asks why India has ...
Who Gets to Roar Like a Tigress? Neoliberalism, Marketised Education and Caste Inequality
India has expanded education as a formal right while simultaneously allowing the conditions under which that right is exercised to ...
The Savarna Need to Talk About Reservation
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Politics of Subcategories in Oppressed Communities
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Bahujan Unity
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Everything is an Opportunity
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Relationship of Caste and Hinduism
Archival Note Published in Dalit Voice (Vol. 29, Issue No. 03, 01/02/2010), this essay by V. T. Rajshekar examines Hinduism ...
The Savarna Need to Talk About Reservation
Say what you will about the CJP protests against the NEET paper leak, everyone has already said that the immediate ...
Politics of Subcategories in Oppressed Communities
Archival Note Published in Dalit Voice (Vol. 17, Issue No. 11, 16 April 1998), this essay enters debates over whether ...
Bahujan Unity
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Why Maharashtra Withdrew Its Temple Land Bill
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A Deep-rooted Post-Independence Conspiracy to Keep Oppressed Castes Oppressed: Anti-Conversion Laws Across Indian States
On 13 March 2026, the Freedom of Religion Bill was tabled in the Maharashtra State Assembly — the eleventh state ...
Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology
The editorial ‘Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology’ from the original Dalit Voice run's Vol. 2, Issue No. 10 (01/03/1983) critically explores ...
Torture and Killings of Untouchables in India
[Testimony to delegates to the Seventh Assembly of the Christian Conference of Asia held in Bangalore, from May 18, 1981 ...
Happy News for Backwards
Here is a happy news for the backward classes. The Karnataka Arya Idigara Sangha, Bangalore, headed by H. R. Basavaraj, ...
Gujarat Dalits Win Caste War
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Why Muslim Life is the Cheapest?
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Panchama-Baiting in Tamil Nadu
I wish to refer to the phenomenon of adoption of Islam by the Panchamas in Tamil Nadu which has been ...