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Mooknayak. Mooknayak (Marathi: मूकनायक; lit. "the Leader of Voiceless" or "The Hero of the Dumb") was a Marathi fortnightly-Newspaper founded by B. R. Ambedkar in 1920. [7] The newspaper aimed to reveal the pain and rebellion of society. [8] The first issue of Mooknayak was published on 31 January 1920. This paper was published ...
The Mooknayak is an online news website founded in 2021 that focuses on social justice for Dalits and marginalized communities. [1] [2] [3] Its name, which means 'the leader of the voiceless' honors the Mooknayak newspaper founded by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar in 1920 and reflects the work of its founder, Dalit journalist Meena Kotwal.
The Dalit Panthers is a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J. V. Pawar in some time between the second and the third semester of 1972. [a] It was founded as a response to the growing discontent among the Dalit youth during the ...
Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community, who have faced caste-based oppression and discrimination for centuries. [1][2][3] This literature encompasses various Indian languages such as Marathi, Bangla, Hindi, [4] Kannada, Punjabi, [5] Sindhi, Odia and Tamil and ...
Malika Amar Sheikh. Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India. He was one of the founders of the Dalit Panthers in 1972, a social movement aimed at destroying caste hierarchy in Indian society. The movement was active in the 1970s and the 1980s during which ...
A group of Dalit women in 2021. Dalit (English: / ˈdælɪt / from Sanskrit: दलित, romanized: dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. [1] Dalits were excluded from the ...
Namantar Andolan (English: Name Change Movement) was a Dalit and Navayana Buddhist movement to change the name of Marathwada University, in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar University. It achieved a measure of success in 1994, when the compromise name of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University was accepted.
Slaughtering. The Khairlanji massacre (or Kherlanji massacre) was the murder of four Scheduled Caste citizens by villagers of Khairlanji on 29 September 2006. [1][2] The killings took place in the small Indian village of Khairlanji (Kherlanji), located in the Bhandara district of the state of Maharashtra.