Dalit Assertion - TodaysChronic

With ally’s needling & eye on northern TN, Stalin cabinet makes history with highest-ever Dalit quorum

Political commentator Stalin Rajangam said it was the outcome of Dalit assertion and the growing strength of VCK in the state. “There is no history of any welfare being undertaken …

0 Lok Sabha seats, dipping vote share, no second-rung leadership — BSP faces existential crisis

by Valentin Shriner

New Delhi: Throughout the long-drawn Lok Sabha election, a question that rattled all political observers was what Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati’s game plan really is — is it to …

Jai Bhim or Jai Shri Ram? UP Dalits at a political crossroads post BSP decline

by Valentin Shriner

But for Chandrawati, these are just minor jabs, typical of the upper castes. They no longer define her sense of self or her aspirations for her children’s future. At least …